CORRECTED-Silicon Valley Bank exits China joint venture, local partner takes full control

Corrects Aug. 31 story headline and paragraph 3 to say Silicon Valley Bank exited its China joint venture, and was bought out by local partner

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 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 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, effectively approving SVB exiting the joint venture.

The bank's registered capital has been lowered to the equivalent of 1 billion yuan ($141 million) from 2 billion yuan.

($1 = 7.0900 Chinese yuan renminbi)

(Reporting by Joe Cash in Beijing and Selena Li in Hong Kong; Editing by Stephen Coates)

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