The risks of a double-dip recession may have receded, but inflation is hogging the headlines again. Asian central banks are about to face another challenging year in 2011, responding to inflation and struggling to deal with capital inflows.

Recently issued, S&P Indices' Credit Default Swap Indices Annual Report analyzes the CDS market in 2010, as measured by the S&P CDS Indices. Listen to Mike Kondas, S&P Fixed Income Indices Analyst and report contributor, discuss key highlights from the paper and provide a birds-eye view of the CDS market over the past year.

Anne Murphy, lecturer in history at the University of Hertfordshire and associate director of the Centre for Financial History at Newnham College, Cambridge, talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about her new book ‘The Origins of English Financial Markets: Investment and Speculation before the South Sea Bubble'. The interview was recorded in London in January 2010