The Zaibatsus were financial cliques that had existed in Japan; some predated the Meiji era, but they're mostly remembered. They were essentially vertical monopolies, family owned, with a holding company, a banking subsidiary, and several different industries subsidies. They were large sprawling machines, and could even dictate national and foreign policy, with some of the larger ones dominating large swaths of certain industries.
I know part of it may spring to simply how Japan industrialized and the existing conditions, but is there a way to get Zaibatsu like formations in other countries? I suppose Germany comes close, and large companies with dominating holdings, hands in many other industries, ect, were quite common, and Trusts in the USA could even resemble Zaibatsu, but I'm wondering if there any other ways such situation could arise. Say, in France for example, or even Russia. Russia seems a good candidate, especially if there is no revolution and laissez-faire capitalism continues unabated, with huge conglomorates dominating certain sectors, like the Oil in Baku, ect.