PULSE PRESIDENT SAYS BANKS WANT A SAY.(Stan Paur, president of the Houston-based Pulse EFT network)(Brief Article)

Unlike Charlie Fote, First Data Corp. chairman and CEO, Stan Paur, president of the Houston-based Pulse EFT network, does not believe First Data owning Concord EFS Inc.'s Star would have a positive influence on Star's ability to retain ties with its former bank owners whose contracts expire next year. "The financial industry is becoming increasingly wary of involvements where they do not have control," he says. …