The European Investment Bank (EIB) has teamed up with Italian lender Intesa Sanpaolo SpA (<a href="https://www.borsaitaliana.it/borsa/azioni/scheda/IT0000072618.html?lang=en" target="_blank">BIT:ISP</a>) on a new initiative that could mobilise up to EUR 8 billion (USD 8.74bn) in investments in the European wind industry, the parties said on Thursday.