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The Dun & Bradstreet Corp Non-Employee Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan

 Exhibit 10.11 
 THE DUN & BRADSTREET CORPORATION 
 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS’ DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

 (As Amended and Restated effective January 1, 2009) 
 Directors of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (the “Company”) who are not employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries
(“Non-Employee Directors”) may participate in this Dun & Bradstreet Corporation Non-Employee Directors’ Deferred Compensation Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan has been amended and restated effective January 1, 2009
to comply with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). All amounts deferred under the Plan are subject to, and not grandfathered for purposes of, Code Section 409A. 
 1. Pursuant to written deferral elections filed with the Company, Non-Employee Directors may irrevocably elect on or before December 31 of any year
to defer payment of all or a specified part (in multiples of 5%) of all cash annual retainer and committee chair retainer fees (“Fees”) payable to them for their services as Non-Employee Directors during the calendar year following such
election. If a Non-Employee Director does not file a new deferral election on or before December 31 of any year, he or she will be deemed to have elected to continue the election in effect for the previous year. Similarly, if a Non-Employee
Director files a timely but incomplete deferral election in any year, he or she will be deemed to have elected to continue any portion of the previous year’s election not specifically superseded by the new election. 
 Any person who becomes a Non-Employee Director during any calendar year, and who has not been a Non-Employee Director of the Company at any time during
the preceding 24-month period, may elect, within thirty (30) days of the date on which his or her term as a Non-Employee Director begins, to defer payment of all or a specified part (in multiples of 5%) of the Fees that are earned and payable
with respect to the remainder of the calendar year, for services performed subsequent to the date such deferral election is executed and filed with the Company. The portion of the Fees that are earned subsequent to the date a deferral election is
executed and filed shall be determined by multiplying the total Fees for the year by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of whole months remaining in the year after the election is filed, and the denominator of which is the total number
of whole months in such year during all or a portion of which such Fees are earned. 
 Each deferral election shall be made in the manner
specified by the Compensation & Benefits Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Committee”) or its delegate. Each deferral election must specify (i) the amount of Fees to be deferred and (ii) the form of payment (lump
sum or five or ten annual installments) in which amounts deferred pursuant to such election shall be paid to the Non-Employee Director after his or her Separation from Service, as defined below. Absent a timely election for installments, the default
form of payment shall be a lump sum. Each year’s deferrals need not be subject to the same form of payment as the previous year’s deferrals. 
 A “Separation from Service” will occur on the date as of which the Company reasonably anticipates that no further services will be performed, or that the level of bona fide services the 

  

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Non-Employee Director will perform will permanently decrease to no more than twenty percent (20%) of the average level of bona fide services performed
over the immediately preceding thirty-six (36)-month period (or the full period of services to the Company, if less than thirty-six (36) months). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, determination of whether a Separation from
Service has occurred shall be consistent with Section 1.409A-1(h) of the Treasury Regulations. 
 2. Amounts deferred by each Non-Employee Director
shall be credited to an account in his or her name, which is adjusted periodically according to deemed investments elected by the Non-Employee Director. Credits to each Non-Employee Director’s account and adjustments for the performance of the
funds in which the account is deemed to be invested shall be made in the same manner as credits and adjustments are made to participants’ accounts in The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation 401(k) Plan (or successor plan) (the “Employee
Plan”). 
 Each Non-Employee Director may select from one or more of the funds available in the Employee Plan for the deemed investment
of Fees deferred into the account described above. Deemed investment elections shall be in increments of one percent (1%) and shall be made in the manner specified by the Committee or its delegate. Each Non-Employee Director will have an
opportunity to select the fund(s) into which deferred Fees are deemed to be invested at the time he or she initially elects to defer the Fees. Subject to the limitation described below with respect to the Dun & Bradstreet Common Stock Fund,
Non-Employee Directors may make new deemed investment elections applicable to existing account balances or future deferrals, or both, at any time. Such elections shall be effective as of the date comparable elections under the Employee Plan would be
effective. In the event a Non-Employee Director fails to make a deemed investment election concurrently with a deferral election, his or her most recent deemed investment election shall be applied to amounts deferred pursuant to the election. If the
Non-Employee Director does not have a deemed investment election on file with the Company, his or her deferrals shall be deemed to be invested in the age appropriate BGI LifePath fund or such other fund determined by the Committee to be the default
deemed investment fund. 
 Any amount deferred by a Non-Employee Director that is, pursuant to his or her election, deemed to be invested in
the Dun & Bradstreet Common Stock Fund immediately upon deferral shall be credited to the Non-Employee Director’s account in an amount equal to one hundred and ten percent (110%) of the amount deferred (with such full amount
treated as deferred Fees for all purposes hereunder). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the deemed investment of any such deferrals (as well as the additional ten percent (10%) credited pursuant to the preceding sentence), as
adjusted according to the performance of the fund, may not be changed for a period of three (3) years from the date the deferral is initially credited to the account. 
 3. The Non-Employee Director’s account, giving effect to the investment performance of the fund(s) to which deferred Fees were credited, shall be paid to the Non-Employee Director in the form(s) of payment
elected by the Non-Employee Director in the deferral election(s) referred to in Paragraph 1 above. The lump sum payment or the first installment, as applicable, shall be paid on the tenth day of the calendar year immediately following the calendar
year in which the Non-Employee Director incurs a Separation from Service from the Company, subject to any additional deferral pursuant to paragraph 5. Subsequent installments, if any, shall be made on the tenth day of each succeeding calendar year
until the entire amount credited to the Non-Employee Director’s account shall have been paid. Each installment payment made pursuant to the Plan shall be deemed to be a separate payment for purposes of Code Section 409A. Notwithstanding
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absolute discretion, commence the distribution, or accelerate the distribution, of a Non-Employee Director’s account, to the extent and under the
circumstances such acceleration is permitted by Code Section 409A and the regulations thereunder. The Non-Employee Director shall not have any election, direct or indirect, with respect to any exercise of such discretion by the Company.

 The amount of each installment shall be determined by multiplying the balance of
the portion of the Non-Employee Director’s account to be paid in five or ten installments, as applicable, as of the last business day of the calendar year immediately preceding the installment payment date by a fraction, the numerator of which
shall be one and the denominator of which shall be the number of installment payments over which payment of such amount is to be made, less the number of installments theretofore made. Thus, if payment is to be made in ten installments, the fraction
for the first installment shall be  1/10th, for the second installment  1/
9th, and so on. 
 Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, if a Non-Employee Director is determined by the Company to be a specified employee for purposes of Code Section 409A, no amount payable under this Section upon his or her Separation from Service shall be paid to him or her before the
date immediately after the expiration of the six-month period following the Non-Employee Director’s Separation from Service. In such case, the amount of the lump sum payment or the first installment, as applicable, shall be determined with
respect to the balance of the Non-Employee Director’s account as of the tenth day immediately preceding the payment date. 
 4. If a Non-Employee
Director should die before full payment of all amounts credited to the Non-Employee Director’s account, the full amount credited to the account as of December 31 of the year of the Non-Employee Director’s death shall be paid on the
tenth day of the calendar year following the year of death to the Non-Employee Director’s estate or to such beneficiary or beneficiaries as previously designated by the Non-Employee Director in a written notice delivered to the Secretary of the
Company. 
 5. A Non-Employee Director may revise the form of payment specified in any of his or her deferral elections, but any such revised election shall
be irrevocable on the date it is delivered to the Company and (i) shall not take effect until twelve (12) months after the date on which it is delivered to the Company, (ii) except in the case of payment by reason of the Non-Employee
Director’s death, must defer payment to a date that is not less than five (5) years from the date such payment would otherwise have been made, and (iii) shall be effective only if it is made not less than twelve (12) months
before the date the payment is scheduled to be paid or commence. 
 6. The right of a Non-Employee Director to any deferred Fees and/or the interest thereon
shall not be subject to assignment by the Non-Employee Director. If a Non-Employee Director does make an assignment of any deferred Fees and/or the interest thereon, the Company may disregard such assignment and discharge its obligation hereunder by
making payment as though no such assignment has been made. 
  

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 7. If there is a “Change in Control” of the Company, as defined in Paragraph 8: 
 a) The total amount to the credit of each Non-Employee Director’s account under the Plan shall be paid to the Non-Employee Director
in a lump sum within thirty (30) days from the date of such Change in Control; provided, however, if such payment is not made within such 30-day period, the amount to the credit of the Non-Employee Director’s account shall be credited with
interest from the date of such Change in Control until the actual payment date at an annual rate equal to the yield on 90-day U.S. Treasury Bills plus one percentage point. For this purpose the yield on U.S. Treasury Bills shall be the rate
published in The Wall Street Journal on the first business day of the calendar month in which the Change in Control occurred. 
 b) The Plan shall terminate as of the date of the Change in Control and no further deferrals may be made hereunder. 
 8. A “Change in
Control” of the Company means the occurrence of any of the following events, but only to the extent such event constitutes a “change in control event” as that term is defined for purposes of Code Section 409A: 
 (a) any one person, or more than one person acting as a group (including owners of a corporation that enters into a merger, consolidation,
purchase or acquisition of stock, or similar business transaction with the Company, but not including persons solely because they purchase or own stock of the Company at the same time or as a result of the same public offering), acquires (or has
acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such person or persons) ownership of stock of the Company possessing thirty percent (30%) or more of the total voting power of the Company’s stock,
but only if such person or group is not considered to effectively control the Company (within the meaning of Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(vi) of the Treasury Regulations) prior to such acquisition. 
 (b) a majority of members of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) is replaced during any 12-month period by
directors whose appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the members of the Board before the date of the appointment or election; 
 (c) any one person, or more than one person acting as a group (including owners of a corporation that enters into a merger, consolidation, purchase or acquisition of stock, or similar business transaction with the
Company, but not including persons solely because they purchase or own stock of the Company at the same time or as a result of the same public offering), acquires ownership of stock of the Company that, together with stock held by such person or
group, constitutes more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power of the stock of the Company, but only if such person or group was not considered to own more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power of the stock of the
Company prior to such acquisition; or 
 (d) any one person, or more than one person acting as a group (including owners of a
corporation that enters into a merger, consolidation, purchase or acquisition of assets, or similar business transaction with the Company, but not including persons solely because they purchase assets of the Company at the same time), acquires (or
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such person or group) assets from the Company that have a total gross fair market value (determined without regard to any liabilities associated with such
assets) equal to or more than ninety percent (90%) of the total gross fair market value of all of the assets of the Company (determined without regard to any liabilities associated with such assets) immediately before such acquisition or
acquisitions, except where the assets are transferred to (i) a shareholder of the Company (immediately before the asset transfer) in exchange for or with respect to its stock, (ii) an entity, fifty percent (50%) or more of the total
value or voting power of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company immediately after the asset transfer, (iii) a person, or more than one person acting as a group, that owns, directly or indirectly, fifty percent (50%) or more
of the total value or voting power of all the outstanding stock of the Company immediately after the asset transfer, or (iv) an entity, at least fifty percent (50%) of the total value or voting power of which is owned, directly or
indirectly, by a person described in (iii), above, immediately after the asset transfer. 
 9. Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, amounts
payable under this Plan shall not be funded and shall be made out of the general funds of the Company; provided, however, that the Company reserves the right to establish one or more trusts to provide alternate sources of benefit payments under this
Plan so long as the funding of any such trust is permitted under Code Section 409A; provided, further, however, that upon the occurrence of a “Potential Change in Control” of the Company, as defined below, the appropriate officers of
the Company are authorized to make transfers to such a “rabbi” trust fund, established as an alternate source of benefits payable under the Plan, as are necessary to fund the lump sum payments to Non-Employee Directors required pursuant to
Paragraph 7 of this Plan in the event of a Change in Control of the Company; provided, further, however, that if payments are made from such trust fund, such payments will satisfy the Company’s obligations under this Plan to the extent made
from such trust fund. 
 For the purposes of this Plan, “Potential Change in Control” means: 
 a) the Company enters into an agreement, the consummation of which would result in the occurrence of a Change in Control of the Company;

 b) any person (including the Company) publicly announces an intention to take or to consider taking actions which if
consummated would constitute a Change in Control of the Company; 
 c) any person, other than a trustee or other fiduciary
holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company (or a company owned, directly or indirectly, by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company), who is or becomes the
beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing nine and one-half percent (9.5%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities, increases such person’s beneficial
ownership of such securities by five percent (5%) or more over the percentage so owned by such person; or 
 d) the Board
adopts a resolution to the effect that, for purposes of this Plan, a Potential Change in Control of the Company has occurred. 
 10. The Committee shall be
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to any management committee, employee, director, or agent its responsibility to perform any act hereunder, including without limitation those matters
involving the exercise of discretion, provided that such delegation shall be subject to revocation at any time at its discretion. The Committee shall have full authority to interpret the provisions of the Plan and construe all of its terms, to
adopt, amend and rescind rules and regulations for the administration of the Plan, and generally to conduct and administer the Plan and to make all determinations in connection with the Plan as may be necessary or advisable, other than those
determinations delegated to management employees or independent third parties by the Board. All of its rules, interpretations and decisions shall be applied in a uniform manner to all Non-Employee Directors similarly situated and decisions of the
Committee shall be conclusive and binding on all persons. The procedure for presenting claims under the Plan and appealing denials thereof shall be as set forth in Appendix A. Any action permitted to be taken by the Committee may be taken by the
Board, in its discretion. 
 11. The Company shall have the right to deduct from any amount deferred or any payment of a Non-Employee Director’s account
hereunder, any amount required to satisfy its obligation to withhold federal, state and local taxes, fees or other similar liabilities. 
 12. Neither
participation in the Plan nor any action under the Plan shall be construed to give any Non-Employee Director a right to be retained in the service of the Company. 
 13. The Plan may be modified, amended, or revoked at any time by the Board. Any amendment by the Board shall be effective only to the extent such amendment does not cause the terms of the Plan or any amount deferred hereunder to violate the
provisions of Code Section 409A or Section 1.409A of the Treasury Regulations. 
 14. The Plan shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of New Jersey applicable to contracts made and to be performed in the State of New Jersey. 
 15. All amounts credited to each
Non-Employee Director’s account or otherwise credited or accrued under this Plan are deferred compensation and subject to Code Section 409A. This Plan is intended to comply with that provision of the Code and all guidance issued thereunder
by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in all respects and shall be administered in a manner consistent with such intent. If an unintentional operational failure occurs with respect to Code Section 409A requirements, any affected Non-Employee
Director or beneficiary shall fully cooperate with the Company to correct the failure, to the extent possible, in accordance with any correction procedure established by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Any reference herein to Code
Section 409A or to Section 1.409A of the Treasury Regulations shall be interpreted to refer to any successor section of the Code, the Treasury Regulations or other guidance issued by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, as appropriate.

  

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 Appendix A – Claims Procedures 
 (a) Filing of Claims. Any Non-Employee Director or beneficiary, or his or her authorized representative, (the “claimant”) may file a written
claim for a Plan benefit with the Compensation & Benefits Committee of the Board of Directors, excluding, if applicable, the claimant (the “Committee”) or its delegate. Claims shall be determined in accordance with the terms of
the Plan, which will be applied consistently with respect to similarly situated claimants. Claimants must use and exhaust the Plan’s administrative claims and review procedure before bringing suit in either state or federal court. The Committee
will give each claimant’s request for benefits a full and fair review. 
 (b) Notice of Denial of Claim. If the Committee denies a
claim, in whole or part, it will furnish a written notice of the denial to the claimant. The written notification shall be given to the claimant within ninety (90) days after receipt of his claim by the Committee unless special circumstances
require an extension of time for processing, in which case written notice of the extension shall be furnished to the claimant prior to the termination of the original ninety (90)-day period, and such notice shall indicate the special circumstances
which make the postponement appropriate and the date by which the Committee expects to render a decision. In no event may the extension exceed a total of one hundred and eighty (180) days from the date of the original receipt of the claim. In
the event of a denial of any benefit requested by any claimant, the claimant shall be given a written notification containing: 
  

	 	(i)	the specific reason or reasons for the denial; 

  

	 	(ii)	specific reference to the pertinent Plan provisions on which the denial is based; 

  

	 	(iii)	a description of any additional material or information necessary for the claimant to perfect a claim and an explanation of why such material or information is necessary; and

  

	 	(iv)	appropriate information as to the steps to be taken if the claimant wishes to submit his claim for review. 

 If a claim is denied, the claimant may file for a review as described in the following subsection (c). 
 (c) Right of Review. In the event of a denial of benefits, the claimant shall be permitted to review the pertinent documents and to submit to the
Committee issues and comments in writing. In addition, the claimant may make a written request for a full and fair review of his claim and its denial by the Committee. Such written request must be received by the Committee within sixty
(60) days after receipt by the claimant of written notification of the denial of the claim. The claimant may submit written comments, documents, records and other information relating to the claim for benefits, whether or not those comments,
documents, records or other information were submitted in connection with the initial claim. The claimant will be provided, upon request and free of charge, reasonable access to, and copies of, all documents, records and other information relevant
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 (d) Decision on Review. A decision shall be rendered by the Committee within sixty (60) days after
the receipt of the request for review. However, where special circumstances make a longer period for decision necessary or appropriate, the Committee’s decision may be postponed on written notice to the claimant (prior to the expiration of the
initial sixty (60)-day period) for an additional sixty (60) days. Such notice shall describe the circumstances requiring the extension of time and the date by which the Committee expects to render a decision. In no event shall the
Committee’s decision be rendered more than one hundred and twenty (120) days after the receipt of the request for review. 
 Any
decision by the Committee shall be furnished to the claimant in writing in a manner calculated to be understood by the claimant and shall set forth the specific reason(s) for the decision and the specific Plan provision(s) on which the decision is
based. If the claim for benefits is denied on review, the claimant will receive written notice of the denial. The notice will include the following information: 
  

	 	(i)	the specific reason or reasons for the denial; 

  

	 	(ii)	specific reference to the pertinent Plan provisions on which the denial is based; 

  

	 	(iii)	a statement that the claimant is entitled to receive, upon request and free of charge, reasonable access to, and copies of, all documents, records and other information relevant to
the claim for benefits; and 

  

	 	(iv)	a statement of any voluntary appeal procedures offered by the Plan. 

  

 82000 Dun & Bradstreet Corp Non-Employee Directors' Stock Incentive Plan

 Exhibit 10.12 
 2000 DUN & BRADSTREET CORPORATION 
 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS’ STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN 

 1. Purpose of the Plan 
 The purpose of
the Plan is to aid the Company in attracting, retaining and compensating non-employee directors and to enable them to increase their ownership of Shares. The Plan will be beneficial to the Company and its shareholders since it will allow
non-employee directors of the Board to have a greater personal financial stake in the Company through the ownership of Shares, in addition to underscoring their common interest with shareholders in increasing the value of the Shares on a long-term
basis. 
 2. Definitions 
 The following
capitalized terms used in the Plan have the respective meanings set forth in this Section: 
  

	 	(a)	Award: An Option or Other Stock-Based Award granted pursuant to the Plan. 

  

	 	(b)	Board: The Board of Directors of the Company. 

  

	 	(c)	Change in Control: The occurrence of any of the following events: 

 (i) any “Person,” as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), (other than the Company, any trustee or
other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company, or any entity owned, directly or indirectly, by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company), is
or becomes the “Beneficial Owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 20% or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding
securities. 
 (ii) during any period of twenty-four months, individuals who at the beginning of such period constitute the
Board, and any new director (other than a director designated by a person who has entered into an agreement with the Company to effect a transaction described in clause (a), (c) or (d) of this Section, a director designated by any
Person (including the Company) who publicly announces an intention to take or to consider taking actions (including, but not limited to, an actual or threatened proxy contest) which if consummated would constitute a Change in Control or a director
designated by any Person who is the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 10% or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s securities) whose election by the Board or nomination for election
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two-thirds ( 2/3) of the
directors then still in office who either were directors at the beginning of the period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority thereof. 
 (iii) the shareholders of the Company approve a merger or consolidation of the Company with any other corporation, other than a merger or
consolidation which would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity) more than
50% of the combined voting power of the voting securities of the Company or such surviving entity outstanding immediately after such merger or consolidation and after which no Person holds 20% or more of the combined voting power of the then
outstanding securities of the Company or such surviving entity; or 
 (iv) the shareholders of the Company approve a plan of
complete liquidation of the Company or an agreement for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets. 
  

	 	(d)	Code: The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor thereto. 

  

	 	(e)	Company: The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. 

  

	 	(f)	Disability: Inability to continue to serve as a non-employee director of the Board due to a medically determinable physical or mental impairment which constitutes a permanent
and total disability, as determined by the Board (excluding any member thereof whose own Disability is at issue in a given case) based upon such evidence as it deems necessary and appropriate. A Participant shall not be considered disabled unless he
or she furnishes such medical or other evidence of the existence of the Disability as the Board, in its sole discretion, may require. 

  

	 	(g)	Effective Date: The latest date on which the Plan was approved by shareholders, as set forth in Section 14 of the Plan. 

  

	 	(h)	 Fair Market Value: On a given date, the arithmetic mean of the high and low prices of the Shares as reported on such date on the Composite Tape of the
principal national securities exchange on which such Shares are listed or admitted to trading, or, if no Composite Tape exists for such national securities exchange on such date, then on the principal national securities exchange on which such
Shares are listed or admitted to trading, or, if the Shares are not listed or admitted on a national securities exchange, the arithmetic mean of the per Share closing bid price and per Share closing asked price on such date as quoted on the National
Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (or such market in which such prices are regularly quoted), or, if there is no market on which the Shares are regularly quoted, the Fair Market Value shall be 

  

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the value established by the Board in good faith in accordance with Section 1.409A-1(b)(5)(iv)(B) of the Treasury Regulations (or any similar
provision(s)). If no sale of Shares shall have been reported on such Composite Tape or such national securities exchange on such date or quoted on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System on such date, then the
immediately preceding date on which sales of the Shares have been so reported or quoted shall be used. 

  

	 	(i)	Option: A stock option granted pursuant to Section 6 of the Plan. 

  

	 	(j)	Option Price: The purchase price per Share of an Option, as determined pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Plan. 

  

	 	(k)	Other Stock-Based Awards: Awards granted pursuant to Section 7 of the Plan. 

  

	 	(l)	Participant: Any director of the Company who is not an employee of the Company or any Subsidiary as of the date that an Award is granted. 

  

	 	(m)	Plan: The 2000 Dun & Bradstreet Corporation Non-Employee Directors’ Stock Incentive Plan. 

  

	 	(n)	Retirement: Except as otherwise provided in an Award agreement, a Participant’s Separation from Service after such Participant has attained age 70, regardless of the
length of such Participant’s service; or, with the prior written consent of the Board (excluding any member thereof whose own Retirement is at issue in a given case), a Separation from Service at an earlier age after the Participant has
completed six or more years of service with the Company. 

  

	 	(o)	Separation from Service: A Separation from Service will occur on the date as of which the Company reasonably anticipates that no further services will be performed, or that
the level of bona fide services the Participant will perform will permanently decrease to no more than twenty percent (20%) of the average level of bona fide services performed over the immediately preceding thirty-six-month period (or the full
period of services to the Company, if less than thirty-six (36) months). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, determination of whether a Separation from Service has occurred shall be consistent with Section 1.409A-1(h) of the
Treasury Regulations. The terms “terminate service,” “termination of service,” and similar terms as used herein mean a Separation from Service. 

  

	 	(p)	Shares: Shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company. 

  

	 	(q)	Subsidiary: A subsidiary corporation, as defined in Code Section 424(f) (or any successor section thereto), of the Company. 

  

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 3. Shares Subject to the Plan 
 The total number of Shares that may be issued under the Plan is 400,000 in addition to any Shares remaining from the original authorization of 300,000 approved by shareholders of the Company as of the 2001 Annual
Meeting. Against the Shares remaining in the Plan, Awards (excluding Other Stock-Based Awards) count as 1 issued Share; Other Stock-Based Awards granted after the Effective Date count as 2.6 issued Shares. The Shares may consist, in whole or in
part, of unissued Shares or treasury Shares. The issuance of Awards shall reduce the total number of Shares available under the Plan. Shares subject to Awards that terminate or lapse may be granted again under the Plan. 
 4. Administration 
 The Plan shall be administered by
the Board, which may delegate its duties and powers in whole or in part to any subcommittee thereof. The Board is authorized to interpret the Plan, to establish, amend and rescind any rules and regulations relating to the Plan, and to make any other
determinations that it deems necessary or desirable for the administration of the Plan. The Board may correct any defect or omission or reconcile any inconsistency in the Plan in the manner and to the extent the Board deems necessary or desirable.
Any decision of the Board in the interpretation and administration of the Plan, as described herein, shall lie within its sole and absolute discretion and shall be final, conclusive and binding on all parties concerned (including, but not limited
to, Participants and their beneficiaries or successors). 
 5. Eligibility 
 All Participants shall be eligible to participate under this Plan. 
 6. Terms and Conditions of Options 
 Options granted under the Plan shall be non-qualified stock options for federal income
tax purposes, as evidenced by the related Option agreements, and shall be subject to the foregoing and the following terms and conditions and to such other terms and conditions, not inconsistent therewith, as the Board shall determine: 

(a) Option Price. The Option Price per Share shall be determined by the Board, but shall not be less than 100% of the Fair Market Value of the
Shares on the date an Option is granted. 
 (b) Exercisability. Options granted under the Plan shall be exercisable at such time and
upon such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Board, but in no event shall an Option be exercisable more than ten years after the date it is granted. 
 (c) Attestation. Wherever in this Plan or any agreement evidencing an Award a Participant is permitted to pay the exercise price of an Option or taxes relating to the exercise of an Option by delivering Shares,
the Participant may, subject to procedures satisfactory to the Board, satisfy such delivery requirement by presenting proof of beneficial ownership of such Shares, in which case the Company shall treat the Option as exercised without further payment
and shall withhold such number of Shares from the Shares acquired by the exercise of the Option. 
 (d) Exercise of Options. Except as
otherwise provided in the Plan or in a related Option agreement, an Option may be exercised for all, or from time to time any part, of the 

  

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Shares for which it is then exercisable. For purposes of Section 6 of the Plan, the exercise date of an Option shall be the later of the date a notice
of exercise is received by the Company and, if applicable, the date payment is received by the Company pursuant to clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) in the following sentence. The purchase price for the Shares as to which an Option is exercised
shall be paid to the Company in full at the time of exercise at the election of the Participant (i) in cash, (ii) in Shares having a Fair Market Value equal to the aggregate Option Price for the Shares being purchased and satisfying such
other requirements as may be imposed by the Board, (iii) partly in cash and partly in such Shares or (iv) through the delivery of irrevocable instructions to a broker to deliver promptly to the Company an amount equal to the aggregate
Option Price for the Shares being purchased. No Participant shall have any rights to dividends or other rights of a shareholder of the Company with respect to Shares subject to an Option until the occurrence of the exercise date (determined as set
forth above) and, if applicable, the satisfaction of any other conditions imposed by the Board pursuant to the Plan. Unless the vesting of an Option is otherwise accelerated pursuant to Section 7(e), 7(f) or 7(g), the unvested portion of the
Option will terminate upon the Participant’s termination of service for any reason. 
 (e) Exercisability Upon Termination of Service
by Reason of Death. If a Participant’s service with the Company and its Subsidiaries terminates by reason of death after the first anniversary of the date on which an Option is granted, the unexercised portion of such Option shall
immediately vest in full and may thereafter be exercised during the shorter of the remaining term of the Option or five years after the date of death. 
 (f) Exercisability Upon Termination of Service by Reason of Disability or Retirement. If a Participant’s service with the Company and its Subsidiaries terminates by reason of Disability or Retirement after
the first anniversary of the date on which an Option is granted, the unexercised vested portion of such Option may thereafter be exercised during the shorter of the remaining term of the Option or five years after the date of such termination of
service; provided, however, that if a Participant dies within a period of five years after such termination of service, the unexercised portion of the Option shall immediately vest in full and may thereafter be exercised, during the shorter of the
remaining term of the Option or the period that is the longer of five years after the Date of such termination of service or one year after the date of death. 
 (g) Effect of Other Termination of Service. If a Participant’s service with the Company and its Subsidiaries terminates by reason of death, Disability or Retirement prior to the first anniversary of the
date on which an Option is granted (as described above), then, a pro rata portion of such Option shall immediately vest in full and may be exercised thereafter, during the shorter of (A) the remaining term of such Option or (B) five years
after the date of such termination of service, for a prorated number of Shares (rounded down to the nearest whole number of Shares), equal to (i) the number of Shares subject to such Option multiplied by (ii) a fraction the numerator of
which is the number of days the Participant served on the Board subsequent to the date on which such Option was granted and the denominator of which is 365. The portion of such Option which is not exercisable shall terminate as of the date of death,
Disability or Retirement. If a Participant’s service with the Company and its Subsidiaries terminates for any reason other than death, Disability or Retirement, the unexercised vested portion of such Option shall terminate thirty days following
such termination of service. 
 (h) Nontransferability of Stock Options. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 6(h), an
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the laws of descent and distribution and during the lifetime of a Participant an Option shall be exercisable only by the Participant. An Option exercisable
after the death of a Participant or a transferee pursuant to the following sentence may be exercised by the legatees, personal representatives or distributees of the Participant or such transferee. The Board may, in its discretion, authorize all or
a portion of the Options previously granted or to be granted to a Participant to be on terms which permit irrevocable transfer for no consideration by such Participant to any child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, stepparent, grandparent, spouse,
sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law, including adoptive relationships, of the Participant, trusts for the exclusive benefit of these persons, and any other entity owned solely by these
persons (“Eligible Transferees”), provided that (x) the Option agreement pursuant to which such Options are granted must be approved by the Board, and must expressly provide for transferability in a manner consistent with this Section
and (y) subsequent transfers of transferred Options shall be prohibited except those in accordance with the first sentence of this Section 6(h). The Board may, in its discretion, amend the definition of Eligible Transferees to conform to
the coverage rules of Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933 or any comparable Form from time to time in effect. Following transfer, any such Options shall continue to be subject to the same terms and conditions as were applicable immediately
prior to transfer. The events of termination of service of Sections 6(e), 6(f) and 6(g) hereof shall continue to be applied with respect to the original Participant, following which the Options shall be exercisable by the transferee only to the
extent, and for the periods specified, in Sections 6(e), 6(f) and 6(g). The Board may delegate to a committee consisting of employees of the Company the authority to authorize transfers, establish terms and conditions upon which transfers may be
made and establish classes of Options eligible to transfer options, as well as to make other determinations with respect to option transfers. 
 7. Other
Stock-Based Awards 
 The Board, in its sole discretion, may grant Awards of Shares, Awards of restricted Shares and Awards that are
valued in whole or in part by reference to, or are otherwise based on the Fair Market Value of, Shares (“Other Stock-Based Awards”). Such Other Stock-Based Awards shall be in such form, and dependent on such conditions, as the Board shall
determine, including, without limitation, the right to receive one or more Shares (or the equivalent cash value of such Shares) upon the completion of a specified period of service, the occurrence of an event and/or the attainment of performance
objectives. Other Stock-Based Awards may be granted alone or in addition to any other Awards granted under the Plan. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Board shall determine to whom and when Other Stock-Based Awards will be made; the number
of Shares to be awarded under (or otherwise related to) such Other Stock-Based Awards; whether such Other Stock-Based Awards shall be settled in cash, Shares or a combination of cash and Shares; and all other terms and conditions of such Awards
(including, without limitation, any vesting or deferral provisions thereof). 
 8. Adjustments Upon Certain Events 
 Notwithstanding any other provisions in the Plan to the contrary, the following provisions shall apply to all Awards granted under the Plan: 

(a) Generally. In the event of any change in the outstanding Shares after the Effective Date by reason of any Share dividend or split,
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to the foregoing, the Board in its sole discretion and without liability to any person may make such substitution or adjustment, if any, as it deems to be
equitable, as to (i) the number or kind of Shares or other securities issued or reserved for issuance pursuant to the Plan or pursuant to outstanding Awards, (ii) the Option Price and/or (iii) any other affected terms of such Awards.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, all substitutions and adjustments shall be made in accordance with Section 1.409A-1(b)(5) of the Treasury Regulations (or any similar provision(s)) and no Shares may be substituted with shares that are not
“service recipient stock,” as defined therein. 
 (b) Change in Control. Upon the occurrence of a Change in Control,
(A) (i) all restrictions on Shares of restricted stock shall lapse and (ii) all Options shall vest and become exercisable and (B) the Board may, but shall not be obligated to, make provision for a cash payment to the holder of an
outstanding Award in consideration for the cancellation of such Award which, in the case of Options, shall equal the excess, if any, of the Fair Market Value of the Shares subject to such Options over the aggregate Option Price of such Options.

 9. No Right to Awards 
 No Participant
or other person shall have any claim to be granted any Award, and there is no obligation for uniformity of treatment of Participants, or holders or beneficiaries of Awards. The terms and conditions of Awards and the Board’s determinations and
interpretations with respect thereto need not be the same with respect to each Participant (whether or not such Participants are similarly situated). 
 10. Successors and Assigns 
 The Plan shall be binding on all successors and assigns of the Company and a Participant,
including without limitation, the estate of such Participant and the executor, administrator or trustee of such estate, or any receiver or trustee in bankruptcy or representative of the Participant’s creditors. 
 11. Amendments or Termination 
 The Board may amend,
alter or discontinue the Plan, but no amendment, alteration or discontinuation shall be made which, (a) without the approval of the shareholders of the Company, would (except as is provided in Section 8 of the Plan), (1) increase the
total number of Shares reserved for the purposes of the Plan, (2) result in any Option being repriced either by lowering the Option Price of any outstanding Option or by canceling an outstanding Option and granting a replacement Option with a
lower Option Price, or (b) without the consent of a Participant, would impair any of the rights or obligations under any Award theretofore granted to such Participant under the Plan; provided, however, that the Board may amend the
Plan in such manner as it deems necessary to permit the granting of Awards meeting the requirements of the Code or other applicable laws. Any amendment by the Board shall be effective only to the extent such amendment does not cause the terms of the
Plan or any Award to violate the provisions of Code Section 409A or Section 1.409A of the Treasury Regulations. 
 12. Nontransferability of
Awards 
 Except as provided in Section 6(h) of the Plan, an Award shall not be transferable or assignable by the Participant
otherwise than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. During the lifetime of a Participant, an Award shall be exercisable only by such Participant. An Award exercisable after the death of a Participant may be exercised by the legatees,
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representatives or distributees of the Participant. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Board, in its sole discretion, shall have the
authority to waive this Section 12 (or any part thereof) to the extent that this Section 12 (or any part thereof) is not required under the rules promulgated under any law, rule or regulation applicable to the Company. 
 13. Choice of Law 
 The Plan shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts made and to be performed in the State of New York. 
 14.
Effectiveness of the Plan 
 The Effective Date is May 2, 2007, the date the amended Plan was approved by shareholders at the
Company’s 2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The Plan has been subsequently amended to comply with Code Section 409A. 
 15. Code
Section 409A 
 This Plan and all Awards are intended to be exempt from or comply with Code Section 409A pursuant to guidance
issued thereunder by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in all respects and shall be administered in a manner consistent with such intent. If an unintentional operational failure occurs with respect to Code Section 409A requirements, any
affected Participant or beneficiary shall fully cooperate with the Company to correct the failure, to the extent possible, in accordance with any correction procedure established by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Any reference herein to Code
Section 409A or to Section 1.409A of the Treasury Regulations shall be interpreted to refer to any successor section of the Code, the Treasury Regulations or other guidance issued by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, as appropriate.

  

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