UK Finance has appointed Vanquis Banking Group group chief executive officer Ian McLaughlin and PayPal UK chief executive officer Simon Bladon to its board.

McLaughlin previously worked as Bank of Ireland UK chief executive officer. He has experience in consumer finance, motor finance, savings, and small- to medium enterprise finance and mortgages.

He has also worked at NatWest managing director for home buying and ownership.

McLaughlin will join on 1 July.

Bladon was the former managing director at Barclays with more than 20 years of experience in strategy, legal, transformation and operations leadership roles across corporate, consumer banking and payments.

He will join the board on 2 May.

UK Finance chair Bob Wigley comments: “The financial services industry is vital to the UK economy. During a big year for the sector, I am pleased to welcome Simon and Ian’s great expertise to the UK finance board.”

“As the trade association for the financial services industry, we champion a thriving sector which acts in the best interests of consumers, businesses and wider society. The board looks forward to working with Simon and Ian to continue promoting a strong and representative financial services sector.”