ELKIN, NC--(Marketwire - Apr 12, 2012) - Yadkin Valley Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: [ YAVY ]) filed a Form S-1 Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 12, 2012.

This Form S-1 is a resale registration statement for the Company's preferred shares held by Treasury under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). There is currently not a specific plan for the shares to be sold. However, Treasury has recently begun the process of auctioning TARP preferred shares from other companies to public investors. Therefore, the Company believes it is prudent to register the potential resale of these shares at this time. Although, there is no assurance that the Company's TARP preferred shares will be included in any auction by Treasury or that they will be sold to one or more investors, filing of this registration statement enables that the Company is ready for such an event.

"We are filing at this time given the current activity we've seen from Treasury regarding TARP shares. This allows us to be ready should an opportunity be made available to us," said Joe Towell, Yadkin Valley's President and Chief Executive Officer.

About Yadkin Valley Financial Corporation

Yadkin Valley Financial Corporation is the holding company for Yadkin Valley Bank and Trust Company, a full-service community bank providing services in 34 branches throughout its two regions in North Carolina and South Carolina. The Western Region serves Avery, Watauga, Ashe, Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin, and Iredell Counties. The Southern Region serves Durham, Orange, Granville, Mecklenburg, and Union Counties in North Carolina, and Cherokee and York Counties in South Carolina. The Bank provides mortgage lending services through its subsidiary, Sidus Financial, LLC, headquartered in Greensboro, NC. Securities brokerage services are provided by Main Street Investment Services, Inc., a Bank subsidiary with four offices located in the branch network. Yadkin Valley Financial Corporation's website is [ www.yadkinvalleybank.com ]. Yadkin Valley shares are traded on NASDAQ under the symbol YAVY.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

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The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements: (1) the rate of delinquencies and amounts of charge-offs, the level of allowance for loan losses, the rates of loan growth, or adverse changes in asset quality in our loan portfolio, which may result in increased credit risk-related losses and expenses; (2) competitive pressures among depository and other financial institutions may increase significantly and have an effect on pricing, spending, third-party relationships and revenues; (3) the strength of the United States economy in general and the strength of the local economies in which we conduct operations may be different than expected resulting in, among other things, a deterioration in the credit quality or a reduced demand for credit, including the resultant effect on the company's loan portfolio and allowance for loan losses; (4) the risk that the preliminary financial information reported herein and our current preliminary analysis will be different when our review is finalized; (5) changes in deposit rates, the net interest margin, and funding sources; (6) changes in the U.S. legal and regulatory framework, including the effect of recent financial reform legislation on the banking industry; and (7) adverse conditions in the stock market, the public debt market and other capital markets (including changes in interest rate conditions) could have a negative impact on the company. Additional factors that could cause our results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found in our reports (such as Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K) filed with the SEC and available at the SEC's Internet site ([ http://www.sec.gov ]). All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning the company or any person acting on its behalf is expressly qualified in its entirety by the cautionary statements above. We do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date the forward-looking statements are made.