[timcederman]

Not some odd reason - he's an ex-pat in the finance industry. It's like how I had modified my pronunciation of 'cache' (although I refuse to change how I say 'data').

BankSimple are based in Portland, Oregon (so yes, US).

[Jacked]

It's also interesting to note that in the U.S., companies are thought of as a standalone entity, and referred to in the singular, rather as a group of people.

So, it'd be "BankSimple is based in...", instead of "BankSimple are based in...".

When I first started reading things from the UK, I initially thought the writers simply used poor grammar :)