International derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced that it will launch financially-settled Micro E-mini S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 options.

The launch is scheduled for June 29, subject to regulatory review.

These new Micro options contracts will be one-tenth the size of their E-mini counterparts with short-dated Monday through Friday expiries. In addition, the contracts will be financially settled, eliminating the additional operational processes tied to underlying futures delivery at expiration.

“The expansion of our deeply liquid equity index options suite directly answers client demand for more versatile, accessible risk management and market access tools,” said Joe Hickey, Global Head of Equity Products at CME Group. “By combining a smaller contract size with the operational simplicity of financial settlement, we are providing traders with the capital-efficient and flexible toolset they need to manage benchmark U.S. equity index exposure with absolute precision.”

Micro E-mini S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 options build upon the success of CME Group’s existing Micro E-mini Equity Index suite, which has surpassed more than 2.6 billion cumulative contracts traded since its inception, including over 1 billion contracts each for S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 Micro E-mini products.

These products will be listed on and subject to the rules of CME.