Award Subject to Clawback. The Award and any Shares delivered pursuant to the Award are subject to forfeiture, recovery by the Company or other action pursuant to any clawback or recoupment policy which the Company may adopt from time to time, including without limitation any such policy which the Company may be required to adopt under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and implementing rules and regulations thereunder, or as otherwise required by law.

Award Subject to Clawback or Recoupment. Pursuant to [Section 13] of the Plan, the Grantee acknowledges that the Award shall be subject to clawback or recoupment pursuant to any compensation clawback or recoupment policy adopted by the Company or required by law that is applicable to the Grantee. In addition to any other remedies available under such policy, applicable law may require the cancellation of the Grantee’s Award (whether vested or unvested) and the recoupment of any gains realized with respect to the Grantee’s Award.

Award Subject to Company Clawback or Recoupment. The Option, including the Shares underlying the Option, shall be subject to clawback or recoupment pursuant to any compensation clawback or recoupment policy adopted by the Board or required by law during the term of Participant’s Service that is applicable to Participant. In addition to any other remedies available under such policy, applicable law may require the cancellation of Participant’s Option (whether vested or unvested) and the recoupment of any gains realized with respect to Participant’s Option and the Shares underlying the Option.

PSUs Subject to Clawback. For employees in Band 600 and above, this PSU Award will be subject to recoupment in the event of violations of the Company policy for Recoupment of Compensation for Compliance violations as set forth in Appendix A as amended from time to time. In addition, PSUs, and any proceeds therefrom, are subject to the Company’s right to reclaim their benefits in the event of a significant restatement of financial results for any Award Period, pursuant to the process described below.

Clawback. For a period of six years after the Award Date, this Award shall be subject to the Valley National Bancorp Clawback Policy which is attached to and made part of this Award.

All award agreements with a Covered Employee shall include language that the award is subject to the Clawback Practice and that the Covered Employee agrees that the award is subject thereto. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, the Clawback Practice applies to each Covered Plan and all awards issued thereunder regardless of whether the Covered Plan or award issued thereunder specifically includes such language, and each Covered Employee is deemed to have agreed that an award under a Covered Plan is subject to this Clawback Practice.

Clawback. In the event of the Company’s material restatement of its financial results the Participant shall repay the entire Cash Bonus, or forfeit such if not already paid, whether vested or unvested, to the extent the restatement is caused or substantially caused by the fraud or intentional misconduct of the Participant. In the event such material restatement is not caused or substantially caused by the fraud or intentional misconduct of the Participant, the participant shall repay, or forfeit if not already paid, whether vested or unvested, so much of the Cash Bonus that was or would have been earned and awarded based on the achievement of financial results that were subsequently the subject of a restatement.

Clawback. In the event of Albany’s material restatement of its financial results, Employee shall repay the entire Retention Incentive, or forfeit such if not already paid, whether vested or unvested, to the extent the restatement is caused or substantially caused by fraud or intentional misconduct on the part of Employee.

Clawback. This Award shall be subject to the clawback provision of [Section 16(n)] of the Plan and this paragraph. The Company may in its sole discretion and as allowed by law recoup amounts paid to the Executive under this Award Agreement in the event of # a financial restatement of the Company's previously issued financial statements as a result of errors, omission, fraud, or noncompliance with any financial reporting requirement under the securities laws, or # any conduct by Executive, or concerning which Executive has direct knowledge and fails to timely take action to address, that is materially adverse to the Company (such conduct to include conduct that in the reasonable opinion of the Company: # warrants or could warrant the Executive’s dismissal; or # is a violation of the Company’s Guiding Principles, or any law, regulation or listing standard (collectively, “Violation”), whether or not such Violation results in criminal prosecution or sanctions against Executive or the Company, and whether or not the Company learns of such Violation before or after the Executive’s termination of employment). In such circumstances, the Committee shall review the facts and circumstances underlying the restatement or Violation. After this review, if it is determined that an Award amount was based on the achievement of certain financial results that were the subject of a restatement, or that the Violation subjected the Company to financial, reputational or other harm, the Committee may, in its discretion, require the Executive to reimburse the Company for all or a portion of any Award actually paid to the Executive or, if such Award has been deferred into the Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plan, forfeit the Award so deferred. In each such instance, the Company may forfeit (to the extent deferred) or seek to recover (to the extent paid) the amount by which the Executive's Award amount exceeded the lower amount, if any, that would have been made based on the restated financial results or the amount that, in the Company’s sole discretion, the Company was harmed by such Violation. However, if the clawback arises from a material restatement of our financial results, the Company will not seek such recovery where the payment to Executive occurred more than three years prior to the date the Company is required to prepare the applicable restatement. If the clawback relates to knowledge of materially adverse conduct, there is no time limit on recovery. The Company will determine, in its sole discretion (but subject to the direction of the Committee), the method for obtaining reimbursement from the Executive. The Company may forfeit and/or recoup amounts paid in respect of an Award regardless of whether the Executive is still employed by the Company or an affiliate on the date forfeiture and/or reimbursement is required. Forfeiture of or recoupment of amounts paid in respect of an Award does not limit any other remedies that the Company may have.

Clawback. Any RSUs You are granted hereunder and/or Shares You receive in settlement of such RSUs, in addition to all other Awards granted to You under the Plan and/or Shares or cash You receive in settlement of such Awards, shall be subject to recovery by the Company in the circumstances and manner provided in any Incentive Compensation Clawback Policy that may be adopted or implemented by the Company and in effect from time to time on or after the date hereof, and You shall effectuate any such recovery at such time and in such manner as the Company may specify. For purposes of this Certificate, the term “Incentive Compensation Clawback Policy” means and includes any policy of the type contemplated by Section 10D of the Securities Exchange Act, any rules or regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted pursuant thereto, or any related rules or listing standards of any national securities exchange or national securities association applicable to the Company as well as any other clawback or recoupment policy that the Company may adopt or implement.