qubit-lab.ch
Quantum Computing for Financial Services.
For a financial institution, quantum computing is an opportunity you can capture and measure — and a risk you must understand and manage.
Independent of hardware and software vendors. Every quantum claim is checked against an exact classical referee — and published.
Quantum Opportunity
New quantum methods for optimization, fraud detection, and classification are maturing. Is quantum relevant for you — today, or in the years ahead? Find out the lean way: your team, your data, and the best available quantum algorithms for finance — and you decide whether to go further, and at what pace.
Published sample runs: a 78-asset portfolio where the quantum result sat 0.0% from the certified optimum — and a dataset where our own product said “not yet”. Fixed scope, fixed price, a go/no-go at the end.
The Lean Quantum Exploration Process →Quantum Risk
Quantum computers will break today’s encryption — and data harvested now can be decrypted later. Risk registers, processes, and security architecture need a quantum-safe path. We help you find yours: lean and efficient.
In its Guidance 05/2026, FINMA recommends that Swiss institutions draw up a PQC roadmap by mid-2027 at the latest.
Explore PQC →A relaxed 30 minutes — management-friendly or physicist to physicist. No slides, no strings attached.
Momentum is building
67 publicly documented quantum initiatives at 39 banks and financial institutions since 2018 — from portfolio optimization and option pricing to fraud analytics and quantum-safe security — and the pace has picked up markedly since 2025. For a Swiss institution the question is turning from whether to look into how to look: lean, without the overhead of a large program.
That is what qubit-lab.ch is built for — and it enables your own people rather than bringing in an external team of quantum scientists. Your quants, data scientists and innovation experts already understand your problems, your data and your constraints. In five sessions they learn the essentials, then test your own data on the best available quantum algorithms — on fast, low-cost simulators and on real quantum hardware, every result checked against an exact classical referee — alongside their day jobs and in bounded steps. Not least, it is work your best people want to do.
The horizon the institutions expect
2030s
About two-thirds of the 60 Swiss institutions FINMA surveyed expect a quantum computer able to break RSA-2048 already in the 2030s. A machine of that class is fault-tolerant — the point where pure quantum algorithms run at scale: full Quantum Monte Carlo with amplitude estimation, and optimization beyond today’s hybrids.
Until then, hybrid algorithms are how a team learns the methods on real problems: cardinality-constrained optimization, quantum machine learning, Quantum Monte Carlo convergence tests. Building that capability takes months, not weeks — and it compounds. The hardware will not wait. The time is now.
FINMA Guidance 05/2026, survey Nov 2025 – Jan 2026 (“within ten years at the latest”)
A selection of institutions with publicly documented quantum initiatives. No affiliation with or endorsement by the institutions shown; all logos remain the property of their respective owners.
See the full map of initiatives by use case and method →How an engagement runs
Each step fixed in scope and price. Enter at any step, stop at any step.
Step 1
30-minute call
Your context and current question. Free, no obligation, no slides.
Step 2
Written proposal
Fixed scope, format, timeline and price — usually within a few days.
Step 3
One fixed-price step
A management briefing, the team Kickstart, or Rapid Quantum Prototyping on your own data.
Step 4
Go / no-go
A clear decision on the next step, backed by certified numbers — not vendor claims.
Entry budget: a team Kickstart plus a two-month Rapid Quantum Prototyping trial — your own data on the best available quantum algorithms — stays under CHF 50,000. Fixed scope, fixed price, go/no-go at the end.
Services
The Lean Quantum Exploration Process: staged steps to a go/no-go decision, enter at any step — plus a separate post-quantum cryptography track.
Step 1 · Management entry point
Quantum Advisory
Realistic use cases, decision paths and next steps for management.
Advisory offerings →Step 2 · Enable the team
Quantum Capability Kickstart
Five hands-on sessions: fundamentals, coding, algorithm workflows, experimentation.
Kickstart format →Step 3 · Explore on your own data
Rapid Quantum Prototyping (RQP)
Monthly team access: your own use cases and data on ready-to-use quantum prototypes, every result checked against an exact classical referee.
The RQP suite →Quantum Risk · separate track
PQC Readiness
Awareness, exposure visibility, stakeholder alignment and the FINMA roadmap.
PQC offerings →Evidence, not promises
Every quantum claim we make is benchmarked against an exact classical referee — and published. Every run exports reproducible notebooks (Qiskit, PennyLane and others), so your team can re-run it. Three sample runs, numbers unedited:
0.0%
QAOA gap to the certified optimum
78-asset portfolio, 8.4 million possible allocations evaluated exactly — the quantum result matched the proven optimum, bit for bit.
Every rule priced
S&P 500 with 20 instruments
Certified minimum tracking error — and the certified cost of every mandate rule, priced by re-solving the optimum without it.
“Not yet”
The verdict we shipped when classical won
On an energy-price dataset our own product recommended staying classical — measured, printed, and monitored until the answer flips.
Market context: 67 publicly documented quantum initiatives at 39 financial institutions, 2018–2026, mapped by use case and method on the quantum finance page.
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Daniel Hug
Founder · MSc Physics ETH Zurich · MBA · PMP
Physicist and senior transformation professional with leadership experience across UBS, Credit Suisse, and SIX. One conviction from years of regulated change: broad exploratory programs stall; small fixed-scope steps that end in a clear decision move organizations forward.
Selected work
3rd-eyes analytics AG
Wealthtech · Zurich
Goal-based investment advice for Swiss financial institutions. Together we explored core–satellite portfolio optimization with QAOA and the RQP Suite; the result is a quantum-inspired, classically executable alternative now being tested for their pipeline — with a formulation that can move to quantum hardware as it matures.
In collaboration with Felix Csajka, PhD, CFA — Head Investments, 3rd-eyes analytics AG
Global Swiss bank
Quant team briefing · 2026
Invited quantum computing briefing for a quant team: quantum fundamentals, algorithm workflows, and a realistic assessment of near-term applicability in finance — no hype, concrete enough for practitioners to act on.
“An excellent introduction — especially valuable because so few people in our field are familiar with the topic yet.”
Selected partners
Delivery with partners for scale: qubit-lab.ch works directly and through consulting partners who own the client programme while qubit-lab.ch brings the quantum method, the RQP platform, and the evidence. How we deliver →
“Very happy to have qubit-lab.ch as our quantum partner — technically rigorous, refreshingly free of quantum hype, and reliable in front of clients.”
