Yes. Lendahand is the first Dutch crowdfunding platform that received the new European Crowdfunding Service Provider license from the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (AFM).
Since the rise of crowdfunding in the Netherlands in 2010, most Dutch crowdfunding platforms have been using a so-called exemption in order to perform crowdfunding activities. Now with the new mandatory ECSP license, the European Commission aims to increase the availability of this innovative form of finance across the EU and will no longer allow crowdfunding platforms to work with an exemption. Since 2016 Lendahand also holds a license as investment firm (MiFID).