BEIJING, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Silicon Valley Bank's
Chinese joint venture will become a wholly owned unit of
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, following approval to change
its name to Shanghai Innovation Bank, a Chinese financial
regulator said late on Friday.
Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) collapse last year was one of
the largest in U.S. banking history and left its joint venture
with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPD) - SPD Silicon Valley
- in the lurch after no buyers emerged to acquire SVB's stake.
In a statement on Friday, the National Financial Regulatory
Administration's Shanghai branch said it had agreed the bank
could adjust its shareholder ratios so that SPD holds 100% of
the shares and to adjust down the bank's registered capital to
the equivalent of 1 billion yuan ($141 million) from 2 billion.
($1 = 7.0900 Chinese yuan renminbi)