Wintrust Financial Corporation Will be Presenting at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Boston Bank Conference on February 26, 2014

ROSEMONT, Ill., Feb. 24, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wintrust Financial Corporation ("Wintrust") WTFC today announced that Company management will present at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Boston Bank Conference on February 26, 2014. The presentation will be broadcast on the Internet and can be accessed at  http://wsw.com/webcast/kbw18/wtfc  and will also be available through Wintrust Financial Corporation's website at www.wintrust.com. The presentation is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The archived webcast will be available for ninety days after the event.  Listeners should go to the website at least fifteen minutes before the event to download and install any necessary audio software. There is no charge to access the event.

Wintrust is a financial holding company with assets of approximately $18 billion whose common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. Built on the "HAVE IT ALL" model, Wintrust offers sophisticated technology and resources of a large bank while focusing on providing service-based community banking to each and every customer. Wintrust operates fifteen community bank subsidiaries, now with over 120 banking locations located in the greater Chicago and Milwaukee market areas. Additionally, the Company operates various non-bank business units including one of the largest commercial insurance premium finance operations in the United States and Canada, a company providing short-term accounts receivable financing and value-added out-sourced administrative services to the temporary staffing services industry, a business unit engaging primarily in the origination and purchase of residential mortgages for sale into the secondary market throughout the United States, and companies providing wealth management services.