---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-029963"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKNG"
cik: "0001075531"
company_name: "Booking Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2024-03-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T05:15:56.142513+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Booking Holdings issues €2.75B senior notes in four tranches with maturities 2029-2044

## Summary
- €500M 3.500% notes due 2029, €650M 3.625% notes due 2032, €850M 3.750% notes due 2036, €750M 4.000% notes due 2044.
- Offering is a registered public offering under existing shelf registration statement.
- Underwriters include Banco Santander, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch.
- Senior notes are unsecured obligations ranking equally with other senior unsecured debt.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-029963
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKNG
- cik: 0001075531
- company_name: Booking Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-03-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000110465924029963/0001104659-24-029963-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000110465924029963/tm246940d5_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Booking Holdings Inc. incurred senior notes of €500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.500% Senior Notes due 2029, €650,000,000 aggregate principal with Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch; U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association at 3.500% on the 2029 Notes, 3.625% on the 2032 Notes, 3.750% on the 2036 Notes, 4. maturing 2029 Notes mature on March 1, 2029; 2032 Notes mature on March 1, 2032; 2036 Notes mature on March 1, 2036; 2044 Notes mature on March 1, 2044.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: €500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.500% Senior Notes due 2029, €650,000,000 aggregate principal
  - Counterparty: Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch; U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association
  - Rate: 3.500% on the 2029 Notes, 3.625% on the 2032 Notes, 3.750% on the 2036 Notes, 4.
  - Maturity: 2029 Notes mature on March 1, 2029; 2032 Notes mature on March 1, 2032; 2036 Notes mature on March 1, 2036; 2044 Notes mature on March 1, 2044
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: 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 €500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.500% Senior Notes due 2029 (the " 2029 Notes "), €650,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.625% Senior Notes due 2032 (the " 2032 Notes "), €850,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.750% Senior Notes due 2036 (the " 2036 Notes ") and €750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.000% Senior Notes due 2044 (the " 2044 Notes " and, together with the 2029 Notes, the 2032 Notes and the 2036 Notes, the " Senior Notes ")
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000110465924029963/0001104659-24-029963-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  Booking Holdings Inc. entered into Officers’ Certificates valued at €500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.500% Senior Notes due 2029, €650,000,000 (effective 2024-03-01).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Value: €500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.500% Senior Notes due 2029, €650,000,000
  - Effective: 2024-03-01
  source text: On March 1, 2024, Booking Holdings Inc. (the “ Company ”) executed four Officers’ Certificates (the “ Officers’ Certificates ”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000110465924029963/0001104659-24-029963-index.htm

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