The Committee shall have full authority and discretion, subject only to the express terms of the Plan, to decide all matters relating to the administration and interpretation of the Plan and this Agreement, and all such Committee determinations shall be final, conclusive, and binding upon the Company, any subsidiary or affiliate, you, and all interested parties. Any provision for distribution in settlement of your RSUs and other obligations hereunder shall be by means of bookkeeping entries on the books of the Company, or by such other commercially reasonable means of delivery of shares to you, and RSUs and related rights hereunder shall not create in you or any beneficiary any right to, or claim against any, specific assets of the Company, nor result in the creation of any trust or escrow account for you or any beneficiary. Until RSUs are in fact settled, you and any of your beneficiaries entitled to any settlement or distribution hereunder shall be a general creditor of the Company.

Unfunded. The Plan shall be an unfunded and unsecured obligation of the Company. The Company shall not be required to establish any special or separate fund or to make any other segregation of assets to assure the issuance of Common Stock and the issuance of Common Stock shall be an unsecured general obligation of the Company.

UNFUNDED PLAN. The Plan is intended to be and at all times shall be operated and administered as an unfunded plan. No provision of the Plan shall be interpreted so as to give any individual any right in any assets of Interpublic or any Affiliate that is greater than the rights of any general, unsecured creditor of Interpublic or such Affiliate.

Unfunded Arrangement. Each Participant and any beneficiary of such Participant are general unsecured creditors of the Bank for the payment of benefits under this Plan. The benefits represent the mere promise by the Bank to pay such benefits. The rights to benefits are not subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, attachment, or garnishment by creditors. Any insurance on a Participant’s life is a general asset of the Bank to which the Participant and the Participant’s beneficiary have no preferred or secured claim.

Unfunded Plan. It is the Company’s intention that the Plan be unfunded. The Company is not required to set aside any assets for payment of the benefits provided under the Plan, and no Participant will have a security interest in any Award.

Unfunded Plan. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, the Plan shall be unfunded and shall not create (or be construed to create) a trust or a separate fund or funds. The Plan shall not establish any fiduciary relationship between the Company and any Participant or other person. To the extent any person holds any rights by virtue of an Award granted under the Plan, such rights shall be no greater than the rights of an unsecured general creditor of the Company.

Unfunded Plan. Each Actual Award that may become payable under the Plan shall be paid solely from the general assets of the Company or the Affiliate that employs the Participant (as the case may be), as determined by the Company. No amounts awarded or accrued under the Plan shall be funded, set aside or otherwise segregated prior to payment. The obligation to pay Actual Awards under the Plan shall at all times be an unfunded and unsecured obligation of the Company. Participants shall have the status of general creditors of the Company or the Affiliate that employs the Participant.

Unfunded Plan. The Plan shall be unfunded, and the Company shall not be required to segregate any assets that may at any time be represented by Bonuses under the Plan.

Unfunded Plan. The obligations of the Company under this Plan are not required to be funded in advance. Nothing contained in this Plan shall give an Eligible Employee or Participant any right, title or interest in any property of the Company or any of its Affiliates.

Unfunded Obligation. The obligation of the Participating Employers to make payments under this Plan constitutes only the unsecured (but legally enforceable) promise of the Participating Employers to make such payments. Participants and their Beneficiaries, heirs, successors and assigns shall have no legal or equitable rights, claims or interests in any specific property or assets of the Company or a Participating Employer, nor shall they be beneficiaries of, or have any rights, claims or interests in any life insurance policies, annuity contracts or the proceeds therefrom owned or which may be acquired by the Company.