Peoples Financial Services Corp. (NASDAQ: PFIS), the bank holding company for Peoples Security Bank and Trust Company, announced today that its board of directors has authorized a stock repurchase plan providing for the purchase of up to 4.9 percent its outstanding shares common stock, or 353,422 shares. The timing, price and volume of repurchases will be based on market conditions, relevant securities laws and other factors. The stock repurchases may be made from time to time on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. The stock repurchase program does not require Peoples to repurchase any specific number of shares, and Peoples may terminate the repurchase program at any time. As of the date of this release, Peoples has approximately 7,212,702 shares of common stock outstanding.

Peoples Financial Services Corp. is the parent company of Peoples Security Bank and Trust Company, a community bank serving Bucks, Lackawanna, Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, and Wyoming Counties in Pennsylvania and Broome County in New York through 26 offices. Each office, interdependent with the community, offers a comprehensive array of financial products and services to individuals, businesses, not-for-profit organizations and government entities. Peoples' business philosophy includes offering direct access to senior management and other officers and providing friendly, informed and courteous service, local and timely decision making, flexible and reasonable operating procedures and consistently applied credit policies.