Investors are wary of Argentina, but if the country is to address its $95bn default, it needs to foster international relations. 

Emerging markets – once the darlings of international bond investors amid low yields and paltry growth in the developed world – now seem a lot less enticing. 

With thousands of delegates signed up to attend Sibos 2013, the topics of discussion are bound to be numerous, but The Banker's transaction banking editor Jane Cooper identifies two overring themes – regulation and cost control – that will feature in most conversations.

Ahead of Sibos 2013, The Banker's technology editor, Duygu Tavan, talks about the difficulties in implementing the Target2-Securities regulation and discusses the recent developments in corporate bank messaging.

The Banker's Middle East editor, Melissa Hancock, reflects on how Dubai, the host of Sibos 2013, has emerged to become the Middle East and north African hub for transaction banking.

The availability of big data in the finance world has gone beyond the big banks, and as other financial institutions receive this information, a whole new set of arguments are set to be heard.

Fanfare over recent results from US investment banks belies the reality that Wall Street’s heyday has passed. 

The growth of China's banks, into the world's largest and most profitable institutions, is not necessarily a good thing for the country.

The UK's regulators are pursuing policies that appease the public, rather than those that solve the problems that triggered the financial crisis.