Company: ACIW
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-086263
Chunk: 34

Company: ACI WORLDWIDE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 34
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 these policies, all audit and non-auditservices to be performed by our independent registered public accounting firm must be approved by the Audit Committee in advance. A proposal for audit and non-auditservices must include a description and purpose of the services, estimated fees and other terms of the services. To the extent a proposal relates to non-auditservices, a determination that such services qualify as permitted non-auditservices and an explanation as to why the provision of such services would not impair the independence of our independent registered public accounting firm are also required. Any engagement letter relating to a proposal must be presented to the Audit Committee for review and approval, and the Chair of the Audit Committee may sign, or authorize an officer to sign, such engagement letter. All services provided by Deloitte & Touche LLP in 2024 and 2023 were pre-approvedby the Audit Committee. Vote Required The affirmative vote of a majority of the shares represented at the Annual Meeting and actually voting on this proposal is required for the approval of this proposal.

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Proposal 3 — Advisory Vote to Approve Named Executive Officer Compensation As required pursuant to Section 14A of the Exchange Act, stockholders are asked to cast an advisory vote on the compensation of our Named Executive Officers as disclosed in this Proxy Statement pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the SEC, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, the accompanying compensation tables and related narrative disclosures contained in this Proxy Statement. This advisory vote is commonly known as a “say-on-pay”vote. As described in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, our executive compensation programs are performance-based programs with a significant portion of each Named Executive Officer’s overall compensation opportunity linked to our annual and long-term financial performance and our long-term relative total shareholder return. The Compensation Committee sets challenging thresholds and target performance levels for each of the metrics in our incentive compensation plans to help ensure that the amounts earned are based upon outstanding performance as measured against pre-establishedfinancial, operational and strategic objectives. We value the feedback from our stockholders regarding our executive compensation programs. As part of our ongoing shareholder dialogue, we regularly seek feedback on these programs, as well as other important issues. Over the last year we proactively reached out to stockholders representing more than 60% of our outstanding shares. For the stockholders that were interested in engaging with us, the feedback from our stockholders has been generally positive. The feedback from our stockholders, and our resulting actions, are described in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis. We