INTERVIEW: No active plan to close LME floor, outgoing chair Sir Brian Bender says

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Sir Brian Bender has seen three London Metal Exchange chiefexecutive officers, the sale to Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing anda great number of other changes over more than nine years as theexchange’s chairman, he told Fastmarkets in an interview, but theopen outcry system will remain for as long as members support it.Bender was on holiday in Australia when a headhunter emailed toask whether he would be interested in being an independentdirector of the LME.His trip abroad meant Bender missed the opportunity, but thisturned out to be a good thing; a few months later the headhunterwas back, this time asking if he would consider being the LMEchairman.