Global financial services company HSBC has announced the world’s first-known evidence for the potential of quantum computers to solve valuable problems in the field of algorithmic bond trading. In an ongoing collaboration with IBM®, researchers combined quantum and classical computational resources to analyze its own real-world, production-scale bond trading data. The hybrid quantum-classical methods employed by the HSBC-IBM team yielded up to a 34% improvement over purely classical techniques for predicting which trades would be completed.

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https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/hsbc-algorithmic-bond-trading

https://www.hsbc.com/news-and-views/news/media-releases/2025/hsbc-demonstrates-worlds-first-known-quantum-enabled-algorithmic-trading-with-ibm