Wintrust Wins Better Business Bureau of Chicago 2021 Torch Award for Ethics
December 09 2021 - 4:22PM
Wintrust Financial Corporation has been named a winner of the 2021
Torch Award for Ethics by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) of
Chicago and Northern Illinois in recognition of its fair, honest,
and ethical business practices.
The BBB’s Torch Award celebrates companies that demonstrate
outstanding integrity, ethics, and overall marketplace excellence.
Given to just nine businesses in the Chicago metro area in 2021,
Wintrust was selected as the sole winner in the “Large Company”
category by a panel of independent reviewers who assessed
applicants according to four categories: character, culture,
customer and community.
“The Torch Award is the most prestigious award the BBB can
present to a business," said Steve J. Bernas, president and CEO of
the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois. "Torch
Award winners demonstrate the highest ethical standards and trust
with customers, business partners, shareholders and the communities
in which they do business. Being a recipient of this award
indicates the company not only believes in the high standards
promoted by the BBB, but consistently demonstrates and integrates
them into daily business practices."
Wintrust was chosen as recipient of this year’s Torch Award for
exemplifying what a values-driven organization can and should look
like. Through the choices made and actions taken by each employee
in service of Chicagoland’s communities, moment by moment and day
by day, Wintrust puts its commitment to relationship-centric
banking in action. Further, Wintrust’s efforts during one of the
toughest stretches in our collective history supported customers
with financial care when it mattered most. BBB judges called out
the company’s fierce commitment to community service, long-standing
investment to the places where its customers work and live, and
consistency in choosing to do what’s right as integral to its
winning credentials.
“It’s an honor to be recognized by the Better Business Bureau as
a leader in business ethics in the greater Chicago community,” said
Edward J. Wehmer, Founder and CEO of Wintrust. “Because our work is
so collaborative, trust is essential to our ability to deliver
results on behalf of our customers and business partners. As we
enter into our 30th year as a company, we’re as committed to
serving the communities in which we operate as we were from the
beginning, and this award proves it. This recognition was made
possible by the dedication and commitment of our entire team to
leading by example and staying true to our mission and values in
everything they do.”
About Wintrust Wintrust
is a financial holding company with assets of approximately
$48 billion whose common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global
Select Market under the symbol WTFC. 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, with over 170 banking locations
located in the greater Chicago and southern Wisconsin market areas.
Additionally, Wintrust operates various non-bank business units
including business units which provide commercial and life
insurance premium financing in the United States, a premium finance
company operating in 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 and qualified intermediary
services for tax-deferred exchanges.
MEDIA CONTACT: Edward J.
Wehmer, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Wintrust Financial
CorporationDavid A. Dykstra, Vice Chairman and Chief Operating
Officer, Wintrust Financial Corporation(847) 939-9000Website
address: www.wintrust.com
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