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Issues Management Tracker & Template

A structured issues management workbook that tracks findings from internal audits, regulatory exams, bank partner reviews, and self-identified issues through validated closure. Log each issue with its action plans, and the risk rating, days open, days overdue, and status flags calculate for you. Regulator and sponsor bank findings get their own tab with the regulator's reference, your management response, and every deadline you committed to. A 5-Whys root cause worksheet and a 10-point closure validation checklist cover the two places examiners most often push back: repeat findings and issues closed without evidence. Whether it's a Matter Requiring Attention (MRA) from your last exam or an internal finding your ops team flagged, everything sits in one place with clear owners, due dates, and status. The dashboard gives your risk committee and board a current snapshot (open, critical, and overdue issues, closures this quarter, aging, business line, root cause trend, and what's due in the next 30 days) without building a slide deck every month. Target dates are checked against remediation limits by risk rating (Critical 30, High 60, Medium 90, Low 180 days) and issues tied to an MRA, MRIA or consent order are checked against a minimum rating. Comes with the 56-page Issues Management Framework Guide. Built for roughly 300 rows of issues and action plans.

• ◆ Issues Register with automatic risk rating, days open, days overdue, and status flags
• ◆ Checks column that flags target dates past the limit for the risk rating without an extension justification, ratings below the regulatory floor for MRAs, MRIAs and consent orders, and finding IDs that don't match the Exam tab
• ◆ Exam & Regulatory Findings tab: regulator reference, finding type, management response, and response and remediation deadlines
• ◆ Root Cause Analysis tab: 5-Whys worksheet with root cause category and systemic-issue flag
• ◆ Closure Validation checklist: 10 items the independent validator completes before an issue closes, with validator and validation date required
• ◆ Dashboard: open, critical, and overdue issues, closed this quarter, aging, business line, root cause trend, 12-month opened vs. closed, and due within 30 days
• ◆ Severity Matrix: heat map that drives the risk ratings, remediation limits by rating, and regulatory rating floors, plus editable dropdown lists
• ◆ Linked KRI ID column that ties issues raised by a KRI breach to the KRI Library
• ◆ 56-page framework guide PDF: methodology, evidence standards, regulatory context (including where fintech findings come from after the CFPB's 2025 shift and the September 2026 proposed third-party guidance), and a worked example