Since its founding around the year 1000, Copenhagen has been invaded by the Germans twice, the Swedes, the Vikings and the British again, twice. Jump forward one millennia to the year 2005 and the city is again to be overrun, with the foreigners now brandishing business cards and laptops rather than canons and frigates.
The capital of Denmark is playing host to invaders of a different persuasion with the 14th annual Sibos conference hitting Scandinavia's most cosmopolitan city. For four days the population of Copenhagen will swell by roughly 5,500, as Sibos returns to Northern Europe for the first time since SWIFT's yearly gathering rolled into Helsinki...