
The UK Government has recently decided to delay the introduction of the Bribery Act 2010. However, businesses should still prepare the ground now so that they don't fall foul of the new regime when it arrives in April 2011, writes David Hamilton, associate, Stephenson Harwood.

When we recently posed the question ‘can you describe the role of the CFO in just a single word or phrase?’ to our FDE LinkedIn members group we were pretty overwhelmed with the amount of responses that we received.
The story gives a light hearted run-through of the highlights from the answers. The demands that finance professionals now experience have progressed significantly, as the endgame now is about creating value by aligning finance, strategy and operations.
In this edition we also profile two CFOs: RWE’s CFO Rolf Pohlig, who has a keen eye on the figures but also happily embraces the company’s investor ethic, and Erich Hunziker, chief financial and IT Officer of the Roche Group. Hunziker was also very active in the resultant post-acquisition human capital issues, ensuring that Roche retained well over 90% of all the innovators it targeted at Genentech.