CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that it will launch financially-settled Micro E-mini S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 options on June 29, pending 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.