Frisco, TX – April 11, 2016 – Wintrust Commercial Finance (WCF) will celebrate its one-year anniversary this month. Since its inception in April 2015, WCF has approved more than $450 million in new business originations.

“We are very pleased to mark this milestone for our team,” said WCF President and CEO Kirk Phillips. “We want to thank all of our customers, both direct and institutional, as well as our parent, Wintrust, for placing their trust and confidence in this team. We remain committed to building a best in class equipment finance and leasing business that provides superior customer service and dependable risk adjusted returns.”

WCF is an equipment-focused financing group, headquartered in Frisco, Texas, offering sophisticated loan and lease products to commercial companies throughout the United States and Canada. Focus industries include transportation, construction, manufacturing, energy services, aviation and turnkey property, plant and equipment, among others. WCF is a business unit of Wintrust Financial.

About Wintrust Financial Corporation

Wintrust is a financial holding company with $23 billion in assets and a common stock traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. Wintrust provides traditional commercial and community banking services; asset-based lending; wealth management services; commercial insurance premium financing; mortgage origination; short-term accounts receivable financing; and certain administrative services, such as data processing of payrolls, billing and treasury management services. Wintrust was created as the alternative to the big banks, offering the solutions and services of larger competitors with the customer-focus and service that can only be found at a true community bank or local financial services company. The Wintrust Community Bank family has more than 150 community bank locations across the Chicagoland area, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.

For more information contact: Kirk S. Phillips, President and CEO – Wintrust Commercial Finance 469-777-5656