Capital Markets · Agent 08 · on IBM watsonx Orchestrate

Find the other side. Prove the print.

In plain English: Quantum Bond works the OTC fixed-income market — it scans for liquidity across venues, finds best execution, scores the credit, and nets the settlement. Eight classical tools, four quantum-accelerated, every print PQC-sealed to a WORM ledger the moment it's struck.

12
tools · 8 classical · 4 quantum
1,047
real-usage IBM jobs
Heron r2
+ Nighthawk on escalation
7 yr
WORM · 17a-4 / MSRB G-14
The problem we exist to solve

In OTC, the price is whoever you can find.

01 · Fragmented

Liquidity hides across venues

A corporate bond's real price lives in a dozen disconnected pools. Miss the best bid and best-execution becomes a number you can't justify.

02 · Opaque

"Best ex" you can't show

MiFID II RTS 27/28 and FINRA want proof you swept the market. A screenshot of one quote isn't proof — it's an exposure.

03 · Unsealed

A print with no provenance

Trade, spread, venue, time — the audit chain a regulator asks for, gone the moment the next ticket lands. SEC 17a-4 wants it for seven years.

01 · What it trades

Price it, find it, route it, net it.

Deterministic QuantLib analytics as the source of truth, with quantum acceleration where it earns escalation to a real IBM QPU — every result carrying a verifiable job ID when it runs on silicon.

Price discovery

YTM, clean price, duration and convexity from a deterministic DCF engine — the mark you can recompute by hand.

QuantLib YTM / DCF

Liquidity scanning

Best-of-quotes across OTC venues via a Grover search — the best bid and best ask, found in O(√N) not O(N).

Grovervenue best-of-quotes

Spread & credit

Z-spread decomposition (QAE) and a quantum-kernel credit score (QSVM) — rich/cheap and risk, on the same ticket.

QAE · QSVMQuantLib Z-spread

Settlement

T+1 / T+0 netting optimization (QAOA) and automatic trade reconciliation — fewer fails, every step recorded.

QAOAnetting optimizer
02 · The live desk

Work an order. Seal the ticket.

A working OTC blotter. Enter an order and the desk prices the bond, sweeps simulated venues for the best bid and ask, computes effective spread and market impact, scores the credit, and seals a trade ticket — exactly as the live agent seals every print to its WORM ledger.

otc_liquidity_scanner · order ticket

99.41 execution
BUY
VenueTypeBidAskSize
— bps
Effective spread
— bps
Market impact
Credit score (QSVM)
In-browser demonstration. Deterministic DCF pricing + a reproducible venue sweep, sealed locally with real WebCrypto SHA-256. The production agent sweeps live OTC venues on watsonx Orchestrate and seals every print.
03 · How a print is made

Price. Sweep. Seal.

01 · PRICE
Deterministic mark

QuantLib DCF sets the fair price, duration and convexity — the recomputable baseline every quote is measured against.

02 · SWEEP
Best-of-quotes

A Grover search finds the best bid and ask across venues; QAE prices the spread, QSVM scores the credit. Escalates to a real IBM QPU when it earns it.

03 · SEAL
WORM-anchored print

Order, execution, venue and spread sealed Ed25519 + ML-DSA/SLH-DSA to a WORM ledger — best-ex proof, 7-year retention.

Honest about the boundary. No quantum speedup, fidelity or "compression" advantage is claimed on hardware — the retired φ¹⁰ / 92.8× framing is used nowhere. What's claimed: real IBM hardware execution with verifiable job IDs, a calibration-aware compile pipeline with a measured chip-dependent improvement on noisy silicon, a reproducible hardware-bound provenance watermark, and a 1,047-job real-usage corpus.
04 · The methods, in the open

Real algorithms. A classical source of truth.

Per-tool, the quantum method and the deterministic engine it runs against — the boundary documented for IBM technical validation.

Tool
Quantum method
Classical source of truth
bond_pricer
— (no quantum claim)
QuantLib YTM / DCF
otc_liquidity_scanner
Grover
venue best-of-quotes
credit_risk_scorer
QSVM (ZZ kernel)
labeled credit model
spread_analyzer
QAE
QuantLib Z-spread
settlement_optimizer
QAOA
T+1 netting optimizer
Sealed · Ed25519 + ML-DSA + SLH-DSA SEC 17a-4FINRA 4370MSRB G-14MiFID IIBasel III7-yr WORM

Print a trade you can defend.

Add Quantum Bond to your watsonx Orchestrate workspace, or let the Prompt Builder wire it into a sealed price-find-route-net chain.

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