Company: APCXW
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001683168-25-002670
Chunk: 65

Company: AppTech Payments Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 65
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 Committee, (“Committee”), any person or entity in which the Company has a
significant interest. The term “control” (including, with correlative meaning, the terms “controlled by” and “under
common control with”), as applied to any person or entity, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct
or cause the direction of the management and policies of such person or entity, whether through the ownership of voting or other securities,
by contract or otherwise.

(b)“Award”
means, individually or collectively, any Incentive Stock Option, Non-Qualified Stock Option, Stock Appreciation Right, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Unit, Stock Bonus Award, and Performance Compensation
Award granted under the Plan.

(c)“Board”
means the Board of Directors of the Company.

(d)“Business Combination” has the meaning given such term in the definition of “Change in Control.”

(e)“Cause”
means, in the case of a particular Award, unless the applicable Award agreement states otherwise, (i) the Company or an Affiliate having
“cause” to terminate a Participant’s employment or service, as defined in any employment or consulting or similar agreement
between the Participant and the Company or an Affiliate in effect at the time of such termination or (ii) in the absence of any such employment
or consulting or similar agreement (or the absence of any definition of “Cause” contained therein), (A) gross misconduct by
the Participant which results in loss, damage or injury to the Company or any of its Affiliates, its goodwill, business or reputation;
(B) the commission or attempted commission of an act of embezzlement, fraud or breach of fiduciary duty which results in loss, damage
or injury to the Company or any of its Affiliates, its goodwill, business or reputation; (C) the unauthorized disclosure or misappropriation
of any trade secret or confidential information of the Company, any of its Affiliate or any third party who has a business relationship
with the Company; (D) the Participant’s conviction of or plea of nolo contendere to, a felony under any state or federal law which
materially interferes with such Participant’s ability to perform his or her services for the Company or any of its Affiliates or
which results in loss, damage or injury to the Company or any of its Affiliates, its goodwill, business or reputation; (E) the violation
(or potential violation) by the Participant, in any material