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NEW YORK — U.S. prosecutors on Monday criminally charged a junior analyst at RBC Capital Markets with insider trading, saying he bought options in a digital printing company after learning it was in talks to be acquired by an RBC client.

Bill Tsai, 23, who graduated last year from New York University’s Stern School of Business, was charged with one count of securities fraud, carrying a maximum 20-year prison term.

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Prosecutors said Tsai, of New York, misappropriated nonpublic information to more than triple his investment in Electronics for Imaging Inc over a three-week period. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed related civil charges.

Tsai was arrested on Sunday and it was unclear whether he had a lawyer. He could not immediately be reached for comment.

RBC, part of Royal Bank of Canada, said it had suspended Tsai and has a “zero-tolerance approach to any breach of the law or our code of conduct.” It was not accused of wrongdoing.