not strange at all Ajack, reporters get things wrong all the time and don't really bother diving deep into things to see if what they're writing is 100% correct. I guess they just assumed there was already a real life bank connected to
PE from what they heard about money transactions and banking licenses and such. Then they put it all together and make as good a description as you can of the game in a few minutes.
They have a difficult job reporters, always doing new things, not having much time to gather all the information and then have to compress all their material to a few minutes. It can be kind of annoying watching stuff you know really well but that news clip wasn't meant for us anyway, we already knew all that and more.