Frankfurt Quantum Finance Forum 2026: Frankfurt School brings together the quantum ecosystem and the financial sector

• Quantum computing is opening up new opportunities for financial services, capital markets, and digital infrastructures.
• Through the Forum, Frankfurt School is fostering dialogue on quantum computing in the financial sector.
• Key topics included cryptography, cybersecurity, portfolio optimisation, and risk modeling.

Quantum computing represents a fundamental shift in computational capabilities, with far-reaching implications for financial services, capital markets, and digital infrastructures. For the financial industry, this development creates new opportunities in areas such as portfolio optimisation, risk modeling, and cryptography. At the same time, it gives rise to new challenges related to cybersecurity, regulation, and technological readiness.

These topics were at the heart of the Frankfurt Quantum Finance Forum 2026, hosted on June 19 by the Centre for Digital Economics at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Around one hundred participants from the financial sector, technology companies, government, and academia gathered on the Frankfurt School campus to discuss the significance of quantum computing for the financial industry.

“Quantum technologies will fundamentally transform the financial sector—not overnight, but step by step. It is crucial that financial institutions, technology providers, academia, and regulators begin building expertise together at an early stage and responsibly explore potential applications. To be prepared for these changes, the financial industry must engage proactively with this transformation, particularly in the critical field of cybersecurity. The Frankfurt Quantum Finance Forum provided an important platform for exactly this purpose,” said Professor Dr Co-Pierre Georg, Director of the Centre for Digital Economics at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

The event aimed to promote cross-industry exchange, initiate collaborations, and raise awareness among stakeholders in Frankfurt as a leading European capital market hub regarding the opportunities and challenges of quantum technologies. Programme highlights included presentations by Professor Georg as well as panel discussions featuring representatives from IBM, Qoro Quantum, the Bank for International Settlements, DE-CIX, Helaba, Quantum Optics Jena, Deutsche Bank, JoS Quantum, and Deutsche Bundesbank. The closing keynote was delivered by Professor Dr Kristina Sinemus, Hessian Minister for Digitalisation and Innovation.

“Quantum computing is a key technology of the future with enormous potential. We are committed to actively advancing its application and have therefore built a strong foundation in Hesse over recent years. With Q and AI, the new Application Center for Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing at Bertramshof in Frankfurt, we are creating a central hub for practical implementation. In addition, through the Hessian Quantum Computing Stakeholder Dialogue 2026, we are involving all relevant stakeholders in the continued development of our quantum computing ecosystem,” said Professor Dr Kristina Sinemus, Hessian Minister for Digitalisation and Innovation. 

Professor Dr Fritzi Köhler-Geib, Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Bundesbank and responsible for Information Technology, added: “Successfully scaling innovation requires a tangible connection between ideas, financial resources, and market access. Frankfurt is a promising example of such an ecosystem. Particularly in the field of technology, Frankfurt has much to offer: the new Application Center for Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing, the ‘Baby Diamond’ quantum computer at Goethe University Frankfurt, and the Hessian Ministry for Digital Strategy and Innovation’s quantum computing feasibility study, in which the Bundesbank is also involved. A particular advantage of Frankfurt is that technological innovation and capital come together here.”

The event was organised for the first time by Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in cooperation with Deutsche Bundesbank.