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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-056016"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PFIS"
cik: "0001056943"
company_name: "PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP."
filed_at: "2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T00:52:37.255110+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Peoples Financial amends bylaws to clarify CEO and President roles, Executive Committee

## Summary
- Board approved Third Amended and Restated Bylaws effective May 30, 2025.
- Section 19.1 clarified that different individuals may hold CEO and President; references to President include CEO.
- Section 13.2 clarified Executive Committee composition if CEO and President are different; non-director officers have no voting rights or quorum count.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-056016
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PFIS
- cik: 0001056943
- company_name: PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP.
- filed_at: 2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1056943/000110465925056016/0001104659-25-056016-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1056943/000110465925056016/tm2517058d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  PEOPLES FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP.: Amended Sections 13.2 and 19.1 to clarify roles of CEO and President regarding distinct offices and Executive Committee composition (effective 2025-05-30).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-30
  source text: On and effective May 30, 2025, the board of directors of Peoples Financial Services Corp. (the “Company”) approved the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, which amended Sections 13.2 and 19.1 of the bylaws.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1056943/000110465925056016/0001104659-25-056016-index.htm

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