Company: PFIS
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-021551
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Company: PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: PRE 14A
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<div align='center'>UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 14A

Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

(Amendment No. )</div>

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<div align='center'>Peoples Financial Services Corp.102 East Drinker Street
Dunmore, Pennsylvania 18512</div>

April , 2025

To Our Shareholders:

You are cordially invited
to participate in the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Peoples Financial Services Corp. to be held on Friday, May 9, 2025 at
9:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. As we have done in recent years, we will be holding a virtual meeting where you will be able to
listen to the meeting live, vote on the matters submitted to shareholders and pose questions and make comments. The virtual meeting can
be accessed by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/PFIS2025.

At the annual meeting, shareholders
will be asked to consider and vote upon: the election of five directors to the Company’s board of directors, each to serve until
the 2028 annual meeting of shareholders and until his or her successor has been selected and qualified