Academy · Flagship course
Quantum
Finance
One of the first courses of its kind: a cutting-edge research area where physics, mathematics, finance, quantum computing and machine learning meet.
Why this course
A field few people can teach
Quantum finance is being explored by research teams at some of the world’s largest banks. It demands fluency in stochastic calculus, derivative pricing and quantum algorithms at once — a combination rarely found in one person, and almost never in one course.
Curriculum
On the board
- 01
Financial mathematics
Stochastic processes, Itô calculus and the Black–Scholes framework.
- 02
Derivatives and hedging
Option pricing, the Greeks and delta hedging, including FX options.
- 03
Quantum computing for finance
Encoding distributions in quantum states; amplitude estimation and its speed-up.
- 04
Quantum optimization
Portfolio optimization with variational and walk-based quantum algorithms.
- 05
Quantum machine learning
Parameterized circuits and learning models for financial data.
- 06
Hands-on
Implementing pricing and optimization workflows in Qiskit.
Who it is for
For serious minds
- Quants, risk professionals and financial engineers
- Physicists and mathematicians moving into finance
- Graduates of the introductory quantum course
- Level
- Advanced
- Format
- Online lectures, derivations and code
- Language
- English
- Prerequisites
- Quantum mechanics basics, calculus, probability