Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-031671
Chunk: 10

Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 10
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 profiles or experiences. The Board also periodically receives reports regarding regulatory priorities and reviews regulatory examination reports of the Company to remain informed on issues and observations raised by regulatory authorities regarding the risk categories of the Company. In addition to the full Board’s direct oversight, the Board’s committees provide oversight of various risks created by the Company’s operations. The Audit Committee provides oversight of financial, regulatory, operational and legal risks, in particular. The Risk Management Committee monitors, among other things, overall enterprise risk management, credit, interest rate, liquidity and market risks. The Finance Committee provides oversight of risks related to strategic transactions and reviews risks associated with the Company’s capital planning strategy and liquidity. The IT/IS Committee provides oversight of risks related to the Company’s information technology and information security strategy, infrastructure, systems, business continuity planning and disaster recovery plans and testing. The IT/IS Committee and the Audit Committee coordinate regarding oversight of the Company’s information security programs. The Nominating Committee provides risk oversight relating to the Company’s board and governance, as well as in relation to the Company’s environmental and social responsibility efforts and progress. The Compensation Committee provides oversight of risks related to the Company’s compensation of its employees. In addition, the Audit Committee, Finance Committee and Risk Management Committee have each undertaken to monitor relevant portions of the risks relating to the capital stress testing process. The Board receives a comprehensive quarterly report from each committee chair regarding matters considered by each respective Board committee, including environmental and social risk oversight as well as cybersecurity. For more information regarding cybersecurity oversight, please refer to Item 1C, “Cybersecurity,” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. Codes of Ethics The Board has adopted our Corporate Code of Ethics applicable to all Directors, officers and employees, and our Senior Financial Officer Code of Ethics (together with the Corporate Code of Ethics, the “Codes”) each of which is available on the Company’s website at www.wintrust.com by choosing “Investor Relations” and then choosing “Corporate Governance.” To assist in enforcement of the Codes, we maintain Wintrust’s 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Ethicspoint, a toll-free hotline and internet-based service through which confidential complaints may be made by employees regarding actual or alleged illegal or fraudulent activity; questionable accounting, internal controls or auditing matters; conflicts of interest, dishonest or unethical conduct; disclosures in the Company’s reports filed with the SEC, bank regulatory filings and other public disclosures that are not full, fair, accurate, timely or understandable;