Company: ACIW
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-086263
Chunk: 57

Company: ACI WORLDWIDE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 57
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 could occur if vesting of either equity or cash-based awards accelerated automatically as a result of the transaction.

2025 PROXY STATEMENT53

Compensation-Related Policies Stock Ownership Guidelines We maintain stock ownership guidelines for our executive officers and our directors to align their financial interests with the interests of our stockholders. These guidelines require our executive officers to hold specific beneficial ownership positions in our common stock, expressed as a multiple of base salary. Specifically, the CEO is generally expected to own shares of our common stock with a value equal to at least six times his base salary, and our other executive officers are expected to own shares of our common stock with a value equal to at least three times their base salary. Shares of our common stock used to calculate compliance with the guidelines include direct share purchases on the open market, shares acquired through any employee benefit plan, and common stock obtained upon the vesting of RSUs and PSUs. Unearned PSUs, the vested “in-the-money”portion of any option to purchase shares of our common stock, unvested PSUs and unvested RSUs are not counted. Each executive officer has five years from the date of his or her appointment to an executive officer position to achieve the prescribed ownership level. An executive officer who is promoted into a role with a different ownership level has an additional two years to reach the prescribed ownership level. An executive officer who fails to meet the ownership guidelines within the five-year period may not be eligible for further equity awards and must retain 50% of the “after-tax”shares he or she receives from the exercise of options to purchase shares of our common stock, the vesting of stock appreciation rights for shares of our common stock, and the vesting of any other equity awards granted under our equity compensation plans until he or she achieves the applicable ownership level. Currently, all of our continuing Named Executive Officers either meet the ownership requirements of our guidelines or are still within the five-year period to meet the guidelines. Compensation Recovery (“Clawback”) Policy During 2023 we adopted a compensation recovery policy consistent with NASDAQ listing requirements that, in the event of an accounting restatement, generally requires us to recover from current or former Section 16 officers erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation received by them, regardless of any fault or misconduct by the officer. The compensation to be recovered (absent limited exceptions prescribed in the policy) is the incentive-based compensation received by an officer minus the amount the officer would have received had such compensation been determined based on the restated financial statements, calculated