New York-based investment bank Jefferies has added four staff to its equities teams in the US and Europe just days after it made a commitment to keep up its aggressive hiring on the back of record second-quarter results.

Bernal Vargas, previously deputy head of international Americas distribution at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, has joined Jefferies as a managing director and head of US equity sales, while Cameron Kissel, formerly a fund manager at Henderson Global Investors, is joining as a vice-president in US equity sales.