The customer would, then, have a good credit report even when he might have been a defaulter elsewhere. A pertinent question to ask, therefore, is what is being done to address the issue of sharing of information across the CICs.
The tariffs, export restrictions and other ad-hoc measures adopted by some countries may also have aggravated market imbalances. The second factor driving these fluctuations in commodity prices is global monetary conditions. Accommodative monetary conditions, especially in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, seem to have contributed to the rise in commodity prices in various ways (figure 3).