NATHAN STOVALL: I think you're going to see banks be a lot more cautious when it comes to making new loans right now, because the easiest way to preserve the cash you have is to not lend it out. +0.70% The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, an independent bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department that supervises national banks, said it has heightened monitoring and is coordinating with other U.S. regulatory agencies to make sure the federal banking system retains the trust of consumers, businesses and communities. 2 bank failures are making smaller banks nervous about losing customers To prevent wider panic, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. broke with normal policy to guarantee that all customers could get their money back from the collapsed SVB and Signature Bank. The fifth-largest commercial bank in the US was fined by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for illegally accessing consumer credit reports and opening accounts without their permission. Many small and medium-sized banks, by contrast, face increasing competition for customers and rising funding costs. With billions of this rainy-day fund now spent, how will it get replenished? We want to hear from you. Well, we probably don't do it by lending,'" Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said in an CNBC interview on Monday. Your browser does not support the