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Banking regulators are t stepping up monitoring of * weak banks since the collapse of Penn Square Bank, they told the Senate Banking k Committee yesterday.</br></br>C.T. Conover, comptroller of the currency, said his office is considering whether to _ take closer looks at banks that sell large amounts of loans to other banks and whether to make public more information about banksÛª financial conditions.</br></br>The National Association of Se-[ |ji;urities Dealers announced that it ' -has taken disciplinary action against the Wilens Securities Co. of Be-thesda and its principal, Martin B. Wilens.</br></br>The NASD, a self-regulatory group of brokerage firms, said the company was suspended from membership in the group from Nov. 29 until Dec. 3. An NASD spokesman said that meant that Wilens Securities could not do business with any securities firm that is a member of ÛÏthe NASD. Nearly all brokerage firms that do business with the publicÛÓincluding those that are members of other self-regulatory bodies such as stock exchangesÛÓare part of the NASD.</br></br>The organization said that Wilens and the company submitted an ÛÏof-A/ for of settlementÛªÛª to the. NASD find-fN'mgs. It said Wilens consented to the V penalties ÛÏwithout admitting or denying the allegationsÛ made bv the NASD.