Any award granted pursuant to this Plan shall be subject to mandatory repayment by the participant to the Company to the extent that such participant is, or in the future becomes, subject to # any “clawback” or recoupment policy adopted by the Company or any Affiliate thereof to comply with the requirements of any applicable laws, rules or regulations, including pursuant to final rules adopted by the SEC and/or the New York Stock Exchange pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or otherwise, as such policy may be amended from time to time, or # any applicable laws which impose mandatory recoupment, under circumstances set forth in such applicable laws, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Company may utilize any method of recovery specified in its policies in connection with any award recoupment pursuant to the terms of its policies.

Clawback Policy. Bonus payments made under the Plan will be subject to the Company’s clawback policy in effect from time to time to the extent applicable.

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.

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.

Any bonus to a participant under this Plan is subject to reduction, forfeiture, or recoupment to the extent provided under Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act or other applicable law, or the Corporation’s mandatory or supplemental clawback policies as may be in effect and applicable to a participant from time to time.

Awards granted under this Plan may be subject to performance conditions, and other requirements, as reflected in any applicable reduction, recoupment, cancellation, malus or clawback policies, practices or provisions, or such other agreements, plans, policies or provisions, of the Company, as in effect from time to time, and any applicable reduction, recoupment, cancellation, malus or clawback requirements imposed under Applicable Laws and Policies, including but not limited to the Clawback and Forfeiture Policy.

This Award is also subject to Valley’s clawback policies in accordance with [Section 8] of this Agreement.

Executive agrees and acknowledges that any annual or long-term cash, equity or equity-based incentive or bonus compensation paid, provided or awarded to the Executive is subject to the terms and conditions of the Company’s clawback policies, which may be amended from time to time, and may be subject to the requirement that such compensation be repaid to the Company or its affiliates after it has been distributed to Executive.

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. 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.