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DIRECTORS OF
NATIONAL PROCESSING, INC.
REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned Directors of National Processing, Inc., an Ohio corporation
(the "Corporation), hereby constitute and appoint David L. Zoeller, Carlton E.
Langer and Thomas A. Richlovsky, and each of them, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, as attorneys or attorney to sign for us and in
our names, in the capacities indicated below, under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, a Registration Statement on Form S-8 relating to the registration
of the shares of National Processing common stock, no par value, of the
Corporation to be issued pursuant to option rights which have been or may be
granted under the National Processing, Inc. 2000 Stock Option Plan and any and
all amendments and exhibits thereto, including post-effective amendments, and
any and all applications or other documents to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission pertaining thereto, with full power and authority to do and
perform any and all acts and things whatsoever required and necessary to be done
in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as we could do if
personally present, hereby ratifying and approving the acts of said attorneys,
and any of them, and any such substitute.
EXECUTED this 5th day of May, 2000.
/s/James R. Bell III Director
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James R. Bell III
Director
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Aureliano Gonzalez-Baz
Director
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Jon L. Gorney
/s/Jeffrey P. Gotschall Director
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Jeffrey P. Gotschall
/s/Preston B. Heller, Jr. Director
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Preston B. Heller, Jr.
/s/Jeffrey D. Kelly Director
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Jeffrey D. Kelly
/s/J. Armando Ramirez Director
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J. Armando Ramirez
/s/Robert G. Siefers Chairman of the Board & Director
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Robert G. Siefers
