MICR Code: 400004005

Bank: State Bank of Hyderabad
IFSC Code: Sbhy0020326
MICR Code: 400004005
Address: Shahid Bhagat Singh Rd, Ballard Estate, Mumbai
City: Greater Bombay
District: Greater Bombay
State: Maharashtra

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 400004005.

  • In this case first three codes 400 is city code and it represents city Greater Bombay.
  • Next three characters 004 represents bank State Bank of Hyderabad.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Shahid Bhagat Singh Rd, Ballard Estate, Mumbai.

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.