January 15, 2011 - New York, NY - JB Homer Associates has recruited Matthew Sinclair, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Barclays Bank/ Africa. Barclays Bank is the flagship subsidiary of global financial group Barclays PLC. The bank is primarily active in the UK, where it has some 1,700 branches, but also has significant retail and commercial operations in Europe, Africa (it owns more than half of South African bank Absa Group), the Middle East, and the US.