"ShoreBank is the oldest and largest community development bank, founded and headquartered in Chicago. It had $2.6 billion in assets as of 2008.

Although mission-based, the bank's financial performance has historically matched or exceeded that of its peer banks.

Former President and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton is a prominent supporter of the bank. In 1985, ShoreBank worked closely with Clinton to set up the Southern Development Bancorporation, a community development bank serving rural Arkansans. Clinton described ShoreBank as "the most important bank in America" and credited ShoreBank’s success with inspiring a movement of community development financial institutions

Under a grant from the Ford Foundation in the 1980s, ShoreBank worked with Muhammad Yunus to help him incorporate Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. "


Obviously, it's not just "some small bank".