Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001015328-25-000130
Chunk: 52

Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 52
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. The Company’s banking subsidiaries execute certain derivative products directly with qualified customers to facilitate their respective risk management strategies related to foreign currency fluctuations. For example, these arrangements allow the Company’s customers to effectively exchange the currency of one country for the currency of another country at an agreed-upon price on an agreed-upon settlement date. In order to minimize the Company’s exposure on these transactions, the Company simultaneously executes offsetting derivatives with third parties. In most cases, the offsetting derivatives have mirror-image terms, which result in the positions’ changes in fair value substantially offsetting through earnings each period. However, to the extent that the derivatives are not a mirror-image and because of differences in counterparty credit risk, changes in fair value will not completely offset resulting in some earnings impact each period. Changes in the fair value of these derivatives are included in other non-interest income. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company held foreign currency derivatives with an aggregate notional amount of approximately $123.3 million and $97.1 million, respectively. 

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Other Derivatives—Periodically, the Company will sell options to a bank or dealer for the right to purchase certain securities held within the banks’ investment portfolios (covered call options). These option transactions are designed to increase the total return associated with the investment securities portfolio. These options do not qualify as accounting hedges pursuant to ASC 815 and, accordingly, changes in the fair value of these contracts are recognized as other non-interest income.  There were no covered call options outstanding as of March 31, 2025, December 31, 2024 or March 31, 2024. Periodically, the Company will purchase options for the right to purchase securities not currently held within the banks’ investment portfolios or enter into interest rate swaps in which the Company elects to not designate such derivatives as hedging instruments. These option and swap transactions are designed primarily to economically hedge a portion of the fair value adjustments related to the Company’s mortgage servicing rights portfolio. The gain or loss associated with these derivative contracts are included in mortgage banking revenue. The Company held nine interest rate derivatives with an aggregate notional value of $353.0 million at March 31, 2025 and ten interest rate derivatives with an aggregate notional value of and $295.0 million at December 31, 2024, for such purpose of economically hedging a portion of the fair value adjustment related to its mortgage servicing rights portfolio. Amounts