diff --git a/app/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.pyc b/app/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.pyc
index b2fd6e9..7d5cbe9 100644
Binary files a/app/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.pyc and b/app/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.pyc differ
diff --git a/app/config.py b/app/config.py
index 598d366..a466a3a 100644
--- a/app/config.py
+++ b/app/config.py
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 import os
 
+
 class Config:
     """Base configuration for Flask app"""
 
     SECRET_KEY = os.getenv("SECRET_KEY", "supersecretkey")
     API_BASE_URL = "https://coreapi.dev.simbrellang.net/v1/api/salary"
     JWT_SECRET_KEY = os.getenv("JWT_SECRET_KEY", "your_jwt_secret")
-    DEBUG = True
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+    DEBUG = True
+
+    KAFKA_BROKER = "dev-events.simbrellang.net:9085"
+    KAFKA_PAYMENT_TOPIC = "PROCESS_PAYMENT"
diff --git a/app/integrations/__init__.py b/app/integrations/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f19ae60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/integrations/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+from .kafka import KafkaIntegration
diff --git a/app/integrations/kafka.py b/app/integrations/kafka.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a10c29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/integrations/kafka.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+from confluent_kafka import Producer
+import json
+import logging
+from app.config import settings
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class KafkaIntegration:
+    _producer = None
+    _config = {
+        "bootstrap.servers": settings.KAFKA_BROKER,
+        "client.id": "loan-service-producer",
+        "acks": "all",
+        "retries": 3,
+        "debug": "broker,topic,msg",
+    }
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _get_producer():
+        """Kafka producer"""
+        if not KafkaIntegration._producer:
+            KafkaIntegration._producer = Producer(KafkaIntegration._config)
+
+            logger.info(
+                f"Connected to Kafka broker at {KafkaIntegration._config['bootstrap.servers']}"
+            )
+
+        return KafkaIntegration._producer
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def delivery_report(err, msg):
+        """Called once for each message produced"""
+        if err is not None:
+
+            logger.error(f"Message delivery failed: {err}")
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Message delivery failed: {err}")
+
+        else:
+            logger.debug(
+                f"Message delivered to {msg.topic()} [{msg.partition()}] @ offset {msg.offset()}"
+            )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def send_disbursement_request(disbursement_data, request_id):
+        """
+        Send disbursement request to PROCESS_PAYMENT topic
+
+        Args:
+            disbursement_data (dict): Disbursement data request payload
+            request_id (str): Unique request identifier (used as Kafka key)
+
+        Returns:
+            None
+        """
+        try:
+            # proceed to send the disbursement request to Kafka
+            producer = KafkaIntegration._get_producer()
+
+            # sending disbursement request to Kafka
+            producer.produce(
+                "PROCESS_PAYMENT",
+                key=str(request_id),
+                value=json.dumps(disbursement_data).encode("utf-8"),
+                callback=KafkaIntegration.delivery_report,
+            )
+
+            producer.poll(0)
+
+            logger.info(
+                f"Disbursement request {request_id} sent to Kafka: {disbursement_data}"
+            )
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(
+                f"Failed to send disbursement request {str(request_id)} to Kafka: {str(e)}"
+            )
+            raise Exception(
+                f"Failed to send disbursement request {str(request_id)} to Kafka: {str(e)}"
+            )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def flush():
+        """Shutdown"""
+        producer = KafkaIntegration._get_producer()
+        producer.flush()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ae70549..a5968da 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ Flask-Marshmallow==0.15.0
 marshmallow==3.19.0
 Flask-Cors==3.0.10
 gunicorn
-requests
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+requests
+confluent-kafka==1.9.2
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