Long-term financing can be described as any financial asset with a duration spanning one year, including assets of formal and informal capital. Long-term financing leads to economic development, greater security, mutual wealth, and sustainable peace in two crucial ways: the lenders' roll-over threats, expanding the investment cycle, and improving efficiency.

The majority of long-term funding is generated by banks; resource use, like private equity, is restricted to businesses of any size. Government debts, bonds are the examples. Government debt may take into consideration all policy obligations, like future pension benefits and products and services contracts that the policy has negotiated but not charged. A bond is considered a fixed-rate payment because debt investors are typically charged a set interest rate.