Deutsche Bank has become the latest securities firm to be censured for alleged sex discrimination after the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it had found evidence the bank discriminated against a former female saleswoman and other female employees.

In a letter of determination sent to the bank, the commission said there was sufficient evidence, including documents and eyewitness accounts that supported gender discrimination charges. The letter said the bank subjected Leigh Short, a former saleswoman at the bank's New York securities office, and other female employees working at Asian and Australian sales desks to gender discrimination.