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The Dutch crowdfunding market has grown substantially, with platforms raising over one billion euros annually for SMEs, yet navigating the European Crowdfunding Service Providers Regulation alongside national Dutch law creates a persistent regulatory grey area. Many platforms assume an ECSP licence settles all compliance requirements, but the reality is far more complex, with multiple overlapping obligations from the Dutch Financial Supervision Act that continue to apply and are frequently overlooked

The greater fiscal constraints facing the world's development banks are opening an opportunity for a role for the private sector in infrastructure project finance.