Federal Reserve speaker during the Asian session, and the Bank of Japan too

Good morning, afternoon and evening to ForexLive traders all around the globe.

Just a heads up for central bank activity coming up during the Asian timezone today

At 2300GMT, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams is speaking as part of a panel about the "Impact of Reform in Practice Central Bank Governance and Oversight Reform"

• There will be a prepared text available, but no media Q&A

The topic, "Impact of Reform in Practice Central Bank Governance and Oversight Reform", suggest comments on the economy and monetary policy are unlikely ... but we'll see.

Later in the session today we get the Bank of Japan announcement after their two-day policy meeting. I did a preview of the meeting, here (Preview of the BOJ monetary policy decision, due Friday 22 May 2015 out of Tokyo). There is no scheduled time for the announcement, the BOJ will announce when the BOJ is good and ready to announce, thank-you very much. But, we should expect the statement sometime in the 0230-0330GMT time window.

Early in the London morning we then get a press conference from Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda. This is a regular ooccurrence following the announcement.

And, during the London and US sessions Friday there are loads and loads of central bank speakers. Ryan had the heads up for the ECB forum speaker schedule, and Adam here for the US timezone speakers.