MICR Code: 627015048

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0008508
MICR Code: 627015048
Address: Canara Bank, 8/23 World Trade Avenue, Harbour Estate, Tuticorin ┬Û 628004.
City: Toothukudi
District: Tuticorin
State: Tamil Nadu

MICR is acronym of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. Basically it is a character-recognition technology used by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents.

Generally MICR code is nine character long. First three charaters represent city, next three charaters represents bank name and last three charaters represents bank branch.

Let's decode MICR code 627015048.

  • In this case first three codes 627 is city code and it represents city Toothukudi.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 048 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Canara Bank, 8/23 World Trade Avenue, Harbour Estate, Tuticorin ┬Û 628004..

The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your

  1. Bank account statement
  2. Cheques

Please examine below sample cheque for more details

I hope this clears doubts.