MidSouth Association for Financial Professionals – Sept 2025

Quarterly (In-Person) Meeting
Speaker: “Artificial Intelligence in Finance” with guest speaker Dr. P.K. Jain (University of Memphis)
Location: Char Restaurant, 431 S Highland, Suite 120, Memphis, TN 38111
Date/Time: Thursday, September 11, 2025, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. CT.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing fast and has infiltrated the everyday work life of business and professionals. Specifically in Finance, it is being utilized more and more not just to make routine tasks easier but also to analyze complex problems. Join us as we hear from Dr. P.K. Jain, professor at the University of Memphis’ Finance Department, Insurance, and Real Estate, to discuss how AI is being utilized in the world of finance, including in informed trading on and off-exchanges.

Guest Speaker: Dr. P.K. Jain, Chair │ Professor, University of Memphis

Professor P.K. Jain (Pankaj Kumar Jain, CFA, CFP®, PhD) teaches in the Department of Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate at the University of Memphis. Prof. Jain’s collaborative award-winning research work with graduate students on financial market design is widely cited and recognized both nationally and locally. His students have been invited to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington DC, which also appointed him as a visiting academic scholar under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act from 2012-2014 in the SEC’s Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation – Office of Markets – to conduct special studies mandated by the U.S. Congress. The US Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR) appointed him as a fellow Research Principal from 2017-2019 to work on inter-agency projects. Corporations such as the New York Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange, Pinnacle Airlines, and Google Inc. have invited him in the past to conduct research or executive training programs. He is an Associate Editor of the Financial Review Journal and frequently invited as a presenter or discussant at conferences organized by American Finance Association (AFA), Western Finance Association (WFA), and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) that are led or attended by Nobel laureates. He has published his work in leading academic journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, and Contemporary Accounting Research among others and served as an expert reviewer for these journals in addition to the National Science Foundation.

He is serving as the FIR Department Chairman, and previously served as the program director for Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board recognized educational program and as a Bloomberg certified Director for the Cook Analytics and Trading Lab. In the local community, he has served as the President of the CFA Society of Memphis and also served as one of the Directors of the Memphis Center of International Business Education and Research (CIBER) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. P.K. provided strategic finance training to the not-for-profit MidSouth Minority Business Council (MMBC) members as part of FCBE’s collaboration with that institute. Outside of the college, he has instructed in the Helen Hardin Honors Program and served as a keynote speaker at the luncheons for Rotary Club of Germantown and Financial Planners Association. He also volunteers as the University’s Work in the Progress Symposium evaluator, Memphis City Schools Think Show Juror, Cub Scouts leader, and Boy Scouts volunteer, to help provide wholesome experiences to bright young kids.

431 S Highland, Suite 120, Memphis, TN 38111
(901) 249-3533

Thursday, September 11^th, in-person, begins at 11:30am CT (with a networking lunch), ends at 1:00pm CT

Cost:
Non-members: $50 per person (or $90 to become a member for the remainder of the year).
Members: Complimentary with payment of 2025 annual dues of $180.00
First time guests: Complimentary
Confirmation per person is required to get food. This email can be forwarded to anyone not on the email list.

For confirmation or questions, please contact us.