London: British bank TSB Banking Group Plc said its 2014 pretax profit rose 2.3 per cent as it picked up customers from established rivals and said it would consider acquisitions to accelerate its expansion. TSB, which became Britain’s 7th biggest lender after it was hived off from Lloyds Banking Group last June, said it had taken an 8.4 per cent share of all new personal current accounts opened over the past year with almost 500,000 new TSB bank accounts set up in 2014. The bank is targeting lifting its share of the personal current account market to 6 per cent from 4.2 per cent when it listed on the London Stock Exchange. It said that it expected to pick up more than 6 per cent of all new current accounts opened in 2015.