Wintrust Financial Corporation announced that the company's Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.12 per share of outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on February 25, 2016 to shareholders of record as of February 11, 2016. This represents an increase from the $0.11 quarterly cash dividend paid in each of the quarters of 2015. Additionally, the company's Board of Directors approved quarterly cash dividends on outstanding shares of the company's 5.00% Non-Cumulative Perpetual Convertible Preferred Stock, Series C and the company's 6.50% Fixed-to-Floating Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series D. In each case, the dividend is payable on April 15, 2016 to shareholders of record as of April 1, 2016.