PANews reported on February 7 that according to Nikkei News, the Japanese Financial Services Agency has requested Apple and Google this week to block the download of applications from five overseas crypto exchanges that are not registered. The five companies are Bybit Fintech Limited, MEXC Global, LBank Exchange, KuCoin and Bitget Limited. The Japanese Financial Services Agency issued a warning to these companies in accordance with the Payment Services Act and announced their names. It had previously warned these companies not to conduct business with Japanese customers, but they did not stop, so the Japanese Financial Services Agency decided for the first time to ask them to stop operating. In accordance with the request, Apple has removed these applications from the App Store and no new downloads have been available since February 6. Google, which operates the Play Store, has not yet announced the results of the processing.

Earlier today, it was reported that Bybit, Bitget, MEXC, Kucoin and other apps have been removed from the Japanese App Store.