For wholesale lenders, 2005 was a time of robust growth – and fierce competition – with volume in the sector ballooning by more than 35 percent, a new Inside B&C Lending analysis reveals. By almost any measure, it’s clear that goliath wholesale companies ruled the subprime market last year. Overall, broker and correspondent channels accounted for 78.2 percent of the 2005’s total production, with an estimated $522 billion in new volume. That marked a… [One data table included]