PayPal and Venmo recently released statements announcing multi-year deals with two of the biggest conferences in college sports. The two money-sharing platforms have agreed to partner with the Big Ten and Big 12 as a conduit for disbursing revenue-sharing dollars to their student-athletes.

A federal judge’s recent approval of the House settlement allows universities to directly pay student-athletes for the first time. In a sign of the times, the Big 12 and Big Ten conferences announced multi-year agreements with PayPal to facilitate payments to student-athletes.

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL), a global leader in payments, today announced multi-year agreements with the Big Ten and Big 12 Conferences that will modernize the distribution of institutional payments from universities to student-athletes in a new revenue-sharing model.