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                                                                    Exhibit 24.1

                           DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF
                           NATIONAL PROCESSING, INC.

                       REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

        The undersigned Directors and Officers 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 Common Stock, without par value, of the
Corporation to be issued pursuant to Option Rights which have been or may be
granted under the National Processing, Inc. 1996 Non-Employee Directors 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 21st day of May, 1998.

/s/ James R. Bell, III 
- -------------------------------------              Director
     James R. Bell, III


/s/ Christos M. Cotsakos
- -------------------------------------              Director
     Christos M. Cotsakos


/s/ Aureliano Gonzalez-Baz
- -------------------------------------              Director
     Aureliano Gonzalez-Baz


                             
- -------------------------------------              Director
     Preston B. Heller, Jr.


/s/ Jeffrey D. Kelly
- -------------------------------------              Director
     Jeffrey D. Kelly


/s/ Robert E. Showalter
- -------------------------------------              Director
     Robert E. Showalter


/s/ Robert G. Siefers
- -------------------------------------              Director
     Robert G. Siefers