Quantum Computing and Financial Markets
From Portfolio Optimisation to Cryptographic Exposure
Report overview
Financial markets are exposed to quantum computing in two different ways. In the long term, quantum technologies may become useful for selected financial workloads, including risk modelling, portfolio optimisation, derivatives pricing, Monte Carlo simulation, stress testing and financial crime analytics. In the short term, however, the more urgent issue is not computational advantage but cryptographic resilience. Banks, insurers, asset managers, custodians, payment systems and financial market infrastructures rely on public-key cryptography to protect data, transactions, identity, digital signatures, software integrity and market communication. If future quantum computers weaken today’s cryptographic foundations, the financial sector will face a structural security problem before it receives a mature computational benefit.
Inside the report
Report structure
The report develops the question through 7 analytical sections, moving from the underlying technological or policy problem to its industrial, financial and strategic consequences.
- 01The financial sector’s double exposure
- 02Experimental quantum finance
- 03Plausible medium-term financial use cases
- 04Why claims about quantum advantage need caution
- 05Cryptographic exposure and harvest-now-decrypt-later risk
- 06Standards, regulation and supervisory direction
- 07What financial institutions should monitor over the next 12–36 months
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