Yadkin, Bank of North Carolina in a race to become top community bank in N.C.

They really are two different bank holding companies – in management makeup, loan portfolio, geographic dominance – almost everything. And yet, Raleigh’s Yadkin Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: YDKN) and High Point’s BNC Bancorp. (Nasdaq: BNCN) are in a bitter battle to wrestle the largest community bank designation in North Carolina. On Monday, Bank of North Carolina, the operating entity under BNC, announced it is buying High Point Bank, thereby closing in in on the $7 billion mark in total…