Question: Are Citizens Financial Group and Waters Corporation both US companies?

Context articles: Foundation Financial Group
Ellen Alemany
Mizuho Bank
ICB Banking Group
Waters Corporation
State Street Bank and Trust Company
Johnson Financial Group
People's United Financial
International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles
Citizens Financial Group

Foundation Financial Group was a financial services company with regional operations centers in Atlanta, Fort Worth, Jacksonville, Raleigh, N.C., Rochester, New York and Savannah, Ga. as well as branch offices in Wichita, KS, St. Paul, MN, Indianapolis, IN, Greenwood, IN, Kansas City, MO, and Dayton, OH that holds mortgage lending licenses in 39+ states.
 In addition, Foundation Financial Group was a major employer in Atlanta and Jacksonville, Florida.
 Foundation Financial Group has received several awards for its employment practices, community involvement, and has demonstrated growth since its original inception in 2004.
Ellen Rose Alemany is an American banker.
 In October 2013, she retired as chairman and CEO of RBS Citizens Financial Group and RBS Americas.
 She returned from retirement in 2015 to become chairwoman and CEO of CIT Group and chairwoman, CEO, and president of CIT Bank.
 Alemany is on the boards of Automatic Data Processing, CIT and Fidelity National Information Services.
Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (株式会社みずほ銀行 , Kabushiki-gaisha Mizuho Ginkō ) is the integrated retail and corporate banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group (TYO:8411; NYSE:MFG), one of the largest financial services companies in Japan, with total assets of approximately $1.64 trillion in 2014.
 Mizuho is one of the three so-called Japanese "megabanks" (along with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group).
 Mizuho Bank provides financial products and services to a wide range of clients, including individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises, large corporations, financial institutions and public sector entities.
 Its headquarters office building is located in the Otemachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo.
ICB Banking Group also referred to as Swiss Finance Lexomburg AG or ICB Financial Group, but commonly known as International Commercial Bank (ICB), is an International financial services provider based in Schindellegi, Switzerland, with subsidiaries in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.
 The parent company of the group is known as ICB Financial Group Holdings AG whose stock is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol: ICB.
 , ICB Banking Group was a large financial services provider with total assets in excess of US$1.32 billion and shareholders' equity in excess of US$200 million.
Waters Corporation is a publicly traded Analytical Laboratory instrument and software company headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts.
 The company employs more than 5,000 people, with manufacturing facilities located in Milford, Taunton, Massachusetts; Wexford, Ireland; Wilmslow, around 13 miles south of Manchester, England; and contract manufacturing in Singapore.
State Street Bank and Trust Company simply State Street is a custodian bank organized as a Massachusetts trust company specializing in services to mutual funds and their advisers, collective investment funds, corporate and public pension funds, insurance companies, operating companies and non-profit organizations.
 It is a subsidiary of the State Street Corporation, and used to also provide retail banking and commercial lending products until it sold off that division in 1999 to Citizens Financial Group, of Providence, Rhode Island.
 The retail banking and commercial lending units were sold for $350 million.
Johnson Financial Group, Inc is the holding company of Johnson Bank, Johnson Insurance, as well as Swiss banking company; Banque Franck, Galland & Cie. It has an estimated AUM of $4 billion and is the financial services subsidiary of the larger Johnson Family Enterprises Group of Companies.
 The company was founded in 1970 but wasn't incorporated until 1989 and has grown from a single bank holding company to a global organization providing a full range of financial services to businesses and individuals.
 Johnson Financial Group employs 1100 people and has over 40 locations in Wisconsin and Arizona.
 Helen Johnson-Leipold, one of Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr.'s 4 children, serves as chairman of the company.
 The company also had equity in Cayman Island-based TransOcean Bank & Trust, Ltd.
People's United Financial, Inc. is a savings and loan holding company incorporated under the state laws of Delaware.
 The company owns People's United Bank, a federally chartered stock savings bank headquartered in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
 People's United Bank is the second largest independent bank headquartered in New England, behind Citizens Financial Group.
The international Safe Harbor Privacy Principles or Safe Harbour Privacy Principles were principles developed between 1998 and 2000 in order to prevent private organizations within the European Union or United States which store customer data from accidentally disclosing or losing personal information.
 They were overturned on October 6, 2015 by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which enabled some US companies to comply with privacy laws protecting European Union and Swiss citizens.
 US companies storing customer data could self-certify that they adhered to 7 principles, to comply with the EU Data Protection Directive and with Swiss requirements.
 The US Department of Commerce developed privacy frameworks in conjunction with both the European Union and the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner of Switzerland.
Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is an American bank headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, which operates in the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.