Quantum Technologies: Key Strategies and Opportunities for Financial Services Leaders

The report examines how quantum technologies can transform financial services through enhanced computational power, precise sensing, and advanced cybersecurity. It highlights specific use cases such as risk modelling, fraud detection, and quantum-safe infrastructure, while outlining six strategic pillars—R&D, infrastructure, public-private collaboration, entrepreneurship, workforce development, and responsible deployment—necessary for industry-wide scaling. The document emphasizes a 'defence-in-depth' security strategy combining post-quantum cryptography (PQC) with quantum-native technologies to mitigate future threats from cryptographically relevant quantum computers.

• Quantum computing is projected to generate up to $622 billion in value for the financial services industry by 2035, with primary applications in portfolio optimization, trading strategies, options pricing, risk management, and fraud detection.
• Yapı Kredi demonstrated the power of quantum computing by using D-Wave technology to analyze a network of 4,297 corporate clients for financial crash estimation, completing an analysis in seven seconds that would traditionally take years.
• Intesa Sanpaolo utilized quantum machine learning and variational quantum circuit (VQC)-based classifiers to outperform traditional methods in identifying fraud within a dataset of 500,000 transactions.
• Quantum sensing is currently a niche application in finance, primarily used for ultra-precise timing in high-frequency trading (HFT) via quantum optical atomic clocks, which offer precision 100 times greater than conventional atomic clocks.
• To mitigate the threat of cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs), financial institutions should adopt a 'defence-in-depth' strategy that integrates post-quantum cryptography (PQC) with quantum-native technologies like quantum key distribution (QKD) and quantum random number generators (QRNG).
• HSBC has implemented a quantum-secure solution for its Orion digital assets gold tokenization platform by combining PQC and QRNG from Quantinuum to protect communication between nodes in the distributed ledger.
• Banco Sabadell collaborated with Accenture and QuSecure to explore PQC adoption, focusing on 'cryptographic agility' to allow systems to rapidly switch algorithms as threats evolve.
• The UK government announced a £121 million investment in April 2025 specifically to use quantum technology to combat crime, fraud, and money laundering.
• The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has committed SGD 100 million under the Financial Sector Technology and Innovation Grant Scheme to support quantum and AI capabilities in financial services.

APA

World Economic Forum (2025). Quantum Technologies: Key Strategies and Opportunities for Financial Services Leaders. https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Quantum_Technologies_Key_Strategies_and_Opportunities_for_Financial_Services_Leaders_2025.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Quantum Technologies: Key Strategies and Opportunities for Financial Services Leaders. 2025. https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Quantum_Technologies_Key_Strategies_and_Opportunities_for_Financial_Services_Leaders_2025.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2025quantum, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Quantum Technologies: Key Strategies and Opportunities for Financial Services Leaders}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2025}, month = jul, url = {https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Quantum_Technologies_Key_Strategies_and_Opportunities_for_Financial_Services_Leaders_2025.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }