---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-119133"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKNG"
cik: "0001075531"
company_name: "Booking Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2022-11-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T18:03:45.653084+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Booking Holdings issues €3.5B of Senior Notes in 4 tranches with maturities 2026-2034

## Summary
- €750M 4.000% notes due 2026, €750M 4.250% notes due 2029, €1B 4.500% notes due 2031, €1B 4.750% notes due 2034.
- Notes are senior unsecured obligations; interest payable annually starting Nov/May 2023.
- Offering underwritten by BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Merrill Lynch.
- Issuance consummated on Nov 15, 2022 under existing shelf registration statement.
- Proceeds for general corporate purposes; early redemption allowed at stated premiums plus accrued interest.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-119133
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKNG
- cik: 0001075531
- company_name: Booking Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-11-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000110465922119133/0001104659-22-119133-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000110465922119133/tm2228651d6_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Booking Holdings Inc. incurred senior notes of €750,000,000 with Investors at 4.000% maturing November 15, 2026.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: €750,000,000
  - Counterparty: Investors
  - Rate: 4.000%
  - Maturity: November 15, 2026
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: €750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.000% Senior Notes due 2026
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000110465922119133/0001104659-22-119133-index.htm
- Debt Financings
  Booking Holdings Inc. incurred senior notes of €750,000,000 with Investors at 4.250% maturing May 15, 2029.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: €750,000,000
  - Counterparty: Investors
  - Rate: 4.250%
  - Maturity: May 15, 2029
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: €750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.250% Senior Notes due 2029
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000110465922119133/0001104659-22-119133-index.htm
- Debt Financings
  Booking Holdings Inc. incurred senior notes of €1,000,000,000 with Investors at 4.750% maturing November 15, 2034.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: €1,000,000,000
  - Counterparty: Investors
  - Rate: 4.750%
  - Maturity: November 15, 2034
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: €1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.750% Senior Notes due 2034
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000110465922119133/0001104659-22-119133-index.htm
- Debt Financings
  Booking Holdings Inc. incurred senior notes of €1,000,000,000 with Investors at 4.500% maturing November 15, 2031.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: €1,000,000,000
  - Counterparty: Investors
  - Rate: 4.500%
  - Maturity: November 15, 2031
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: €1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.500% Senior Notes due 2031
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000110465922119133/0001104659-22-119133-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  Booking Holdings Inc. entered into Officers' Certificates with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (effective 2022-11-15).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association
  - Effective: 2022-11-15
  source text: On November 15, 2022, Booking Holdings Inc. (the “ Company ”) executed four Officers’ Certificates (the “ Officers’ Certificates ”), in accordance with Sections 2.02 and 10.04 of the Indenture dated August 8, 2017 (the “ Base Indenture ” and, together with the Officers’ Certificates, the “ Indenture ”) between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association), as trustee (the “ Trustee ”), in connection with the sale of €750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.000% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “ 2026 Notes ”), €750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.250% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “ 2029 Notes ”), €1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.500% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “ 2031 Notes ”), and €1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.750% Senior Notes due 2034 (the “ 2034 Notes ” and, together with the 2026 Notes, the 2029 Notes, and the 2031 N
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000110465922119133/0001104659-22-119133-index.htm

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