Tokyo court extends Mt. Gox creditor repayments to Oct 31, 2026

Mt. Gox, the bankrupt Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed in 2014, has pushed its creditor repayment deadline back one year to October 31, 2026, the rehabilitation trustee announced Monday, four days before the prior deadline. The trustee said the Tokyo court approved the extension to allow more time to complete distributions to creditors who have not yet received their funds.

The trustee said most of the main distributions known as Base Repayment, Early Lump-Sum Repayment and Intermediate Repayment have been completed for creditors who filed the required paperwork and encountered no problems. In the announcement the trustee added, "As it is desirable to make the Repayments to such rehabilitation creditors to the extent reasonably practicable, the Rehabilitation Trustee, with the permission of the court, has changed the deadline for the Repayments from October 31, 2025 to October 31, 2026." About 19,500 creditors have received repayments so far, according to earlier notices of the rehabilitation process.

Many other creditors remain unpaid because they have not completed required procedures or have faced issues during processing, the trustee said. Repayments have...