Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001015328-25-000130
Chunk: 115

Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 115
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 of financial institutions, including broader financial institution liquidity risk and concerns;

•the expenses and delayed returns inherent in opening new branches and de novo banks;

•liabilities, potential customer loss or reputational harm related to closings of existing branches;

•examinations and challenges by tax authorities, and any unanticipated impact of the Tax Act;

•changes in accounting standards, rules and interpretations, and the impact on the Company’s financial statements;

•the ability of the Company to receive dividends from its subsidiaries;

•a decrease in the Company’s capital ratios, including as a result of declines in the value of its loan portfolios, or otherwise;

•legislative or regulatory changes, particularly changes in regulation of financial services companies and/or the products and services offered by financial services companies;

•changes in laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations regarding data privacy and cybersecurity;

•a lowering of our credit rating;

•changes in U.S. monetary policy and changes to the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, including changes in response to persistent inflation or otherwise;

•regulatory restrictions upon our ability to market our products to consumers and limitations on our ability to profitably operate our mortgage business;

•increased costs of compliance, heightened regulatory capital requirements and other risks associated with changes in regulation and the regulatory environment;

•the impact of heightened capital requirements;

•increases in the Company’s FDIC insurance premiums, or the collection of special assessments by the FDIC;

•delinquencies or fraud with respect to the Company’s premium finance business;

•credit downgrades among commercial and life insurance providers that could negatively affect the value of collateral securing the Company’s premium finance loans;

•the Company’s ability to comply with covenants under its credit facility; 

•fluctuations in the stock market, which may have an adverse impact on the Company’s wealth management business and brokerage operation; and

•widespread outages of operational, communication, or other systems, whether internal or provided by third parties, natural 

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or other disasters (including acts of terrorism, armed hostilities and pandemics), and the effects of climate change.

Therefore, there can be no assurances that future actual results will correspond to these forward-looking statements. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statement made by the Company. Any such statement speaks only as of the date the statement was made or as of such date that may be referenced within the statement. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect the impact of circumstances or