** Shares of Splitit SPT.AX rise as much as 6.8% to
A$0.235, post their biggest intraday percentage gain since Jan.
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** Buy-now-pay-later firm says its fourth-quarter merchant
sales volume rose 51% to $130 mln, driven by strong performance
in the Asia Pacific region urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASXgz29F
** Says for the 12-month period, it saw 1,250 active
merchants, up 60% from a year earlier, while active shoppers
were up 43% to 330,000
** Stock down 12% this year, as of last close
(Reporting by Tejaswi Marthi in Bengaluru)
((tejaswi.marthi@thomsonreuters.com))