HSBC Achieves Quantum Computing "Sputnik Moment" In Bond Market

HSBC Holdings Plc has achieved a "Sputnik moment" with the first real-world trial of quantum computing in bond markets, delivering up to a 34% improvement in predicting the probability of winning customer inquiries in the European corporate bond market. This marks the first empirical evidence of quantum computing solving real-world problems in algorithmic bond trading and could intensify the race among major banks to develop and deploy quantum computing in financial markets. "Working with a team from IBM, H ...