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+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_loan_request(loan_data, request_id):
+        """
+        Send loan request to PROCESS_PAYMENT topic
+
+        Args:
+            loan_data: Loan request payload as dict
+            request_id: Unique request identifier (used as Kafka key)
+        """
+        try:
+
+            # Proceed to send loan request to Kafka
+            producer = KafkaIntegration._get_producer()
+
+            # Sending loan request message to Kafka
+            producer.produce(
+                topic="PROCESS_PAYMENT",
+                key=str(request_id),
+                value=json.dumps(loan_data).encode("utf-8"),
+                callback=KafkaIntegration.delivery_report,
+            )
+
+            producer.poll(0)
+
+            logger.info(f"Loan request {request_id} queued for processing")
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(
+                f"Failed to send loan request to Kafka: {str(e)}", exc_info=True
+            )
+            raise Exception(f"Failed to send loan request to Kafka: {str(e)}")
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def flush():
+        """Shutdown"""
+        producer = KafkaIntegration._get_producer()
+        producer.flush()