The parties hereto recognize that a major need of the Company is to preserve its specialized knowledge, trade secrets, and confidential information. The strength and good will of the Company is derived from the specialized knowledge, trade secrets, and confidential information generated from experience with the activities undertaken by the Company and its subsidiaries. The disclosure of this information and knowledge to competitors would be beneficial to them and detrimental to the Company, as would the disclosure of information about the marketing practices, pricing practices, costs, profit margins, design specifications, analytical techniques, and similar items of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Employee acknowledges that the proprietary information, observations and data obtained by him while employed by the Company concerning the business or affairs of the Company are the property of the Company. By reason of his being a senior executive of the Company, the Employee has or will have access to, and has obtained or will obtain, specialized knowledge, trade secrets and confidential information about the Company’s operations and the operations of its subsidiaries, which operations extend throughout the United States. Therefore, subject to the provisions of Section 14 hereof, the Employee hereby agrees as follows, recognizing that the Company is relying on these agreements in entering into this Agreement:

Assignor will not use or disclose anything assigned to the Assignee hereunder or any other technical or business information or plans of the Assignee.

The Executive recognizes and acknowledges that the Bank's trade secrets and proprietary information and processes, as they may exist from time to time, are valuable, special and unique assets of the Bank, and the access to and knowledge of which are essential to the performance of the Executive's duties hereunder. The Executive will not, during or after the Term of this

Confidential Information. Employee covenants and agrees not to reveal to any person, firm, or corporation any confidential information of any nature concerning the Employer or its business, or anything connected therewith. As used in this Section 10, the term “Confidential Information” means all of the Employer’s and its Affiliates’ confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets in existence on the date hereof or existing at any time during the term of this Agreement, including but not limited to –

Confidential Information. The Participant recognizes that by virtue of his or her service with the Company Group, he or she will be granted otherwise prohibited access to confidential information and proprietary data which are not known, and not readily accessible to the Company Group’s competitors. This information (the “Confidential Information”) includes, but is not limited to, identity of current and prospective customers; identity of key contacts at such customers; customers’ particularized preferences and needs; pricing, length and other terms of customer contracts; marketing strategies and plans; financial data; personnel data; compensation data; proprietary procedures and processes; and other unique and specialized practices, programs and plans of the Company Group and their respective customers and prospective customers. The Participant recognizes that this Confidential Information constitutes a valuable property of the Company Group, developed over a significant period of time and at substantial expense. Accordingly, the Participant agrees that he or she shall not, at any time during or after his or her service with the Company Group, divulge such Confidential Information or make use of it for his or her own purposes or the purposes of any person or entity other than the Company Group.

Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” means, collectively, all information (whether written or oral, or in electronic or other form, and whether furnished before, on or after the date of this Agreement) concerning, or relating in any way, directly or indirectly, to the other party (“Disclosing Party”), the Sale Agreement, or the Purchased Receivables, including any Medexus Reports, notices, requests, correspondence or other information furnished pursuant to this Agreement and any other reports, data, information, materials, notices, correspondence or documents of any kind relating in any way, directly or indirectly, to the Purchased Receivables. Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Confidential Information” shall not include the existence or terms of this Agreement, or any information that # was known by Receiving Party at the time such information was disclosed to Receiving Party, its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives in accordance herewith or in accordance with the Confidentiality Agreement, as evidenced by its written records; # was or becomes generally available to the public or part of the public domain (other than as a result of a disclosure by Receiving Party, its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives in violation of this Agreement or the Confidentiality Agreement) prior to any disclosure of such information by Receiving Party, its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives; # becomes known to Receiving Party on a non-confidential basis from a source other than Disclosing Party and its Representatives (and without any breach of this Agreement or the Confidentiality Agreement by Receiving Party, its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives); provided, that such source, to the knowledge of Receiving Party, had the right to disclose such information to Receiving Party (without breaching any legal, contractual or fiduciary obligation to Disclosing Party); or # is or has been independently developed by Receiving Party, its Affiliates or its or its Affiliates’ Representatives without use of or reference to the Confidential Information (as evidenced by contemporaneous written records).

Confidential Information. Each Party (the “Receiving Party”) may receive during the course and conduct of activities under this Agreement, certain proprietary or confidential information of the other Party (the “Disclosing Party”) as furnished to the Receiving Party by or on behalf of the Disclosing Party. The term “Confidential Information” means all ideas and information of any kind, whether in written, oral, graphical, machine-readable or other form, whether or not marked as confidential or proprietary, which are transferred, disclosed or made available by Disclosing Party or at the request of Receiving Party, including any of the foregoing of Affiliates or Third Parties. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, # any information to the extent including ​ shall be the ​ shall be deemed ​ for purposes of this [Article 12], # any information to the extent including ​ shall be ​, and ​ shall be deemed ​ for purposes of this [Article 12], # the ​ shall be the ​, and ​ shall be deemed ​ for purposes of this [Article 12], # ​ shall be ​, and ​ shall be deemed to be ​ for purposes of this [Article 12], and # any other information disclosed by or on ​ hereunder to ​ shall, for the avoidance of doubt, ​ for purposes of this [Article 12].

Confidential Information. Except to the extent expressly authorized by this Agreement or otherwise agreed in writing by the Parties, each Party agrees that, during the Term and for ​ thereafter, it will, and will cause its Affiliates, to keep confidential and not publish or otherwise disclose to any Third Party, and not use for any purpose other than as provided for in this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, any Confidential Information of the other Party or any of its Affiliates, provided that each Party and its Affiliates may disclose the Confidential Information of the other Party or its Affiliates to the receiving Party’s and its Affiliates’ officers, directors, employees and agents who in each case are bound by commercially reasonable obligations of confidentiality with respect to the use and disclosure of such Confidential Information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information of a Party or its Affiliate will exclude that portion of such information or materials that the receiving Party (or the receiving Party’s Affiliate) can demonstrate by competent written proof:

The Executive recognizes and acknowledges that the continued success of ​ and its Affiliates depends upon the use and protection of a large body of confidential and proprietary information and that the Executive will have access to the entire universe of ​’s Confidential Information (as defined below in Section 10(b)), as well as certain confidential information of other Persons with which ​ and its Affiliates do business, and that such information constitutes valuable, special and unique property of ​, its Affiliates and such other Persons.

Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” means all confidential, proprietary and/or trade secret information or materials owned or controlled by a Party, including technical, scientific and other know-how and information, trade secrets, knowledge, technology, means, methods, processes, practices, formulas, instructions, skills, techniques, procedures, controls, specifications, data, results and other material, pre-clinical and clinical trial results, manufacturing procedures, test procedures and purification and isolation techniques, other procedures related to the Services, and any tangible embodiments of any of the foregoing, and any scientific, manufacturing, marketing and business plans, any financial and personnel matters relating to a Party or its present or future products, sales, suppliers, customers, employees, investors or business, that has been disclosed by or on behalf of such Party to the other Party either in connection with the discussions and negotiations pertaining to this Agreement or in the course of performing this Agreement, or that has been developed under this Agreement.