How a Mid-Size Manufacturer Survived the 2023 Regional Banking Crisis

When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in March 2023, mid-size manufacturers across the US suddenly found their lines of credit frozen and their payroll accounts trapped. This episode drills into one specific story: how a $400 million industrial parts supplier in Ohio kept its doors open when its primary bank failed. Lucas and Luna walk through the company's three-part playbook, from emergency cash consolidation to supplier renegotiation to a last-minute pivot to asset-based lending. They connect the story to today's higher-for-longer rate environment, where the unemployment rate sits at 4.3 percent and job openings have dipped below seven million for the first time since 2021. The lesson is concrete: crisis management isn't about having a plan, it's about having a contact list you've maintained since the good times. #RegionalBankingCrisis #SVBCollapse #MidSizeManufacturing #CashManagement #AssetBasedLending #CrisisManagement #BusinessSurvival #OhioBusiness #SupplyChain #LiquidityCrunch #FedPolicy #InterestRates #JOLTS #Unemployment #BusinessContinuity #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #LessonsFromCrisis Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo