MILAN (Reuters) -Banco BPM will assess potential partnerships for its insurance business after receiving several expressions of interest from leading players in the sector, a spokesperson for Italy’s third-largest bank said. The move will pit Banco BPM’s main shareholder, French bank Credit Agricole, against other suitors eyeing a ‘bancassurance’ deal with the Italian lender including French insurer AXA, according to people familiar with the matter. Credit Agricole this month emerged as the biggest investor in Banco BPM with a 9.2% stake which the French group said was aimed at expanding the s…