Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-052025
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Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-22
Form: S-8
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) The
Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of
an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering
of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c) Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission
such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a
claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director,
officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,
officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel
the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification
by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

<div align='center'>SIGNATURES</div>

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the Village of Rosemont, State of Illinois, on May 22, 2025.

| WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORPORATION |                                                                        |
| By:                            | /s/ Kathleen M. Boege                                                  |
|                                | Kathleen                                                               
 M. Boege                                                               |
|                                | Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary |

<div align='center'>POWER OF ATTORNEY</div>

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes