MICR Code: 500054008

Bank: City Union Bank Ltd
IFSC Code: Ciub0000262
MICR Code: 500054008
Address: No 1, Orandiamman Koil Street, Velacherry, Chennai 600 042
City: Chennai
District: Chennai
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 500054008.

  • In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 054 represents bank City Union Bank Ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No 1, Orandiamman Koil Street, Velacherry, Chennai 600 042.

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.