MICR Code: 688049056

Bank: Federal Bank Ltd
IFSC Code: Fdrl0001871
MICR Code: 688049056
Address: Grand Furniture Mart, Survey No 141/1 Eramalloor
City: Alapuzha
District: Alapuzha
State: Kerala

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 688049056.

  • In this case first three codes 688 is city code and it represents city Alapuzha.
  • Next three characters 049 represents bank Federal Bank Ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 056 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Grand Furniture Mart, Survey No 141/1 Eramalloor.

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.