¡°Hey Barclays, the elves are * with you.¡±

Such yuletide disdain is old hat for the British bank, long a target of London climate protesters who say it deserves coal-filled stockings given its fossil fuel-financing ways.

Employing a combination of humor, satire and shame, environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion and Fossil Free London have held regular protests outside the bank¡¯s London headquarters to demand it stop funding oil and gas (and coal) and instead throw its weight behind the energy transition.