Company: DLX
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000027996-25-000107
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Company: DELUXE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: DEF 14A
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, of which 9,360 were issued pursuant to the director's decision to defer certain fees or equity awards.

(14) Includes 888,025 shares receivable upon the exercise of options exercisable within the next 60 days, and 873,515 RSUs, of which 39,226 were issued pursuant to directors' decisions to defer certain fees or equity awards.

#### Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports
Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, and its related regulations, require our directors and executive officers, and any persons holding more than ten percent of our common stock, to report their initial ownership of our securities and any subsequent changes in that ownership to the SEC. We filed a late Form 4 for Yogaraj Jeyaprakasam, our Chief Technology and Digital Officer, to report two purchase transactions that resulted from an automatic reinvestment option he had activated.

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### EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

#### Executive Summary
In this Compensation Discussion and Analysis (CD&A), the Compensation and Talent Committee (referred to as the Committee throughout this CD&A and the compensation tables following this CD&A) describes the principles of our executive compensation program, how we applied those principles in compensating our NEOs for 2024, and how we use our compensation programs to motivate effective executive performance aligned to our overall company goals. The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the various tables and accompanying narrative disclosure appearing in this Proxy Statement. The table below identifies our NEOs.

| Named Executive Officer |     | Title at the End of 2024                                                         |     | Years in Position at End of 2024 
                        (rounded) |     | Years of Service at End of 2024 
                       (rounded) |
| Barry C. McCarthy       |     | Director, President and Chief Executive Officer                                  |     |                                6 |     |                               6 |
| William C. Zint         |     | Senior VP, Chief Financial Officer                                               |     |                                2 |     |                               4 |
| Tracey G. Engelhardt    |     | Senior VP, President, Print                                                      |     |                                3 |     |                              30 |
| Yogaraj Jeyaprakasam    |     | Senior VP, Chief Technology and Digital Officer                                  |     |                                3 |     |                               3 |
| Jeffrey L. Cotter       |     | Senior VP, Chief