“The Dutch Alternative Finance market has reached a tipping point and is now widely being accepted as an added value to the SME financing landscape by companies, banks and policy makers. Because of the many different AltFin providers the biggest challenge in the next couple of years will be to educate financial advisors to find the most reliable and best fitted solutions for their clients.”

Ronald Kleverlaan, a note alternative finance expert, and a speaker of our Global SME Finance Forum for 2019, commented on the report from Stichting MKB Financiering that alternative finance surpassed € 1 billion in 2018 in the Netherlands as sector growth continues.