In 2002, Wholesalers Widen Lead in Race For B&C Market Share Mortgage brokers played a key role in the strategy of many subprime lenders in 2002, a year in which wholesalers accounted for the bulk of record origination volume, a new Inside B&C Lending analysis shows. Overall, some 65.9 percent of 2002’s estimated $213 billion in volume flowed through wholesale channels last year – up from the prior year’s 61.1 percent. Most of those loans