Marion King

Marion is a highly accomplished business leader with an exemplary track record of driving growth through innovation, change and superlative people leadership. Marion is Chair and Trustee of the Open Banking Implementation Entity, where her key priorities are maintaining the existing implementation of open banking, as well as working with the Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee (JROC) to decide the future direction of open banking in the UK.

Marion also fulfils a non-executive director portfolio, contributing to the growth and advancement of financial services companies.

Marion was Director of Payments, NatWest (2015-2022), responsible for setting the Payments strategy and prior to joining NatWest, she was President of MasterCard UK & Ireland developing a world beyond cash through an innovative approach to everyday Payments.

Before joining MasterCard, Marion was CEO of VocaLink, where during her tenure the Faster Payments Service was launched and Voca and Link were merged.

Marion has held international Managing Director roles at Reuters, in London and Hong Kong.

Marion was previously chair of the Advisory Board of the Payments Association (2021-2023).